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Thanks everyone for the info so far Col. I am looking forward to your resutls. I do plan on settling into one or two powders to use regularly once I try multiple. Great comment on the power factor and pressure. The Collin County IDPA website has a great IDPA Power Factor Table that I have been using, the table is at http://www.ccidpa.org/idpa-power.html My set up right now is a single-stage RCBS Partner press, RCBS Carbibe Die Set for 38/357 and the Lee 4 Die Set for 40 S&W, I do not have a powder despenser yet so I weigh each charge using my 5-0-5 scale right now. I am hoping this month or next to pickup an auto despenser. Will the Lee despensers that that work on the powder through dies work on my press ok? I am looking at Unique next it is seems little slower but not so much slower that I will be using a lot more powder than I am now, my Lyman Reloading Book has lots of data for Unique and it looks like it might work well for 357 Magnum loads in addtion to 38 special and 40 S&W. Then by the time I use up that bottle I may be comfortable enought to move to a faster powder like Clay's. Any comments on this? Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk

Thanks, I do shoot IDPA at SVSC, I definitely plan on checking out the USPSA matches there soon. Unfortunately I am short a gun for the multi-gun matches... maybe Santa will be good to me this year

Hello I am new to the forum, I am in the Sacramento, CA vicinity. I am currently shooting IDPA with both my 40S&W (4003TSW) and my S&W 686 4". In order to shoot more, I have recently started reloading for both calibers, and it has been alot of fun. I am also a former LEO who decided on a career change a quite a few years ago, but I still keep in touch with the LEO life through several of my best friends who are still in it and through my current job. Nice to meet everyone, I have been reading the forum for a number of months and decided to start participting.

Hi Everyone, Great forum I have learned alot. I am new to reloading and I am about 3/4's of the way through my first and only bottle 1lb. bottle of W231. I have worked up a load that I like for IDPA, 180gr Bear Creek Molly Coated over 4.5gr of W231 1.125 OAL and for my 38spl load 158gr Berry's RN over 4.0gr of W231. I shoot both in IDPA. While I like the loads above, I do not have any personal frame of reference to compare against when it comes to other powders. So I would like to get a different powder each time I purchase for a while that can be used for both 40 S&W and 38 Special to build up some personal experience and knowledge. The question then is what should I try next? What advantages and disadvantages would the powder you suggest have over W231? Some of the things I am considering are felt recoil, cleanliness, case postion sensitivity, speed, pressure etc. I am reoading to help me shoot more for about the same or less spend per month as buying factory ammo, so purchasing multiple powders at one time is not really an option at this point. Thanks everyone! Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk

Bear Creek 180gr Molly Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk