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I guarantee if you used nearly any other commonly used SML powder in this video it would not be nearly as dramatic. Nay sayers though want that dramatic effect to instill fear in others or they would use powders we commonly use. They would use amounts of powder we would use. Not 120grs of a pistol powder.
The video was very disingenuous. They used 120 grains of "Double Base" HS-6.
I looked up the loads for the .458 Winchester magnum. It calls for 50 to 70 grains of Single Based Powder.
CVA didn't use a powder with the characteristics of IMR-4198, IMR-4895 or H-335, they used a a double load of very fast burning powder which contains Nitroglycerine.
What CVA did, was prove they couldn't use a type of powder in an amount which shooters may actually use in a muzzleloader. By having to exaggerate the outcome, they proved using the correct smokeless in safe amount can be safe. That is because if they used what shooters actually use in their muzzleloaders, CVA's demonstration and claim would have failed and proven it safe.
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