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Hodgdon Powder Company. The Hodgdon Powder Company began in 1952 as B.E. Hodgdon, Inc., and has become a major distributor of smokeless powder for the ammunition industry, as well as for individuals who load their own ammunition by hand. The company's corporate office and manufacturing facilities are located in Kansas, United States.
The added -30 stands for the standard load of 30 grains (1.9 g) of early smokeless powder and is based on late-19th century American naming conventions for black powder-filled cartridges. Both Marlin and Union Metallic Cartridge Co. also dropped the Winchester appellation, as they did not want to put the name of rival Winchester on their products.
Source(s): Accurate Powders load guide v3.5 [1] Hodgdon powders achieve approx 100fps less. [ 2 ] The .300 Winchester Magnum (also known as .300 Win Mag or .300 WM ) (7.62×67mmB, 7.62x66BR) is a belted , bottlenecked magnum rifle cartridge that was introduced by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company in 1963.
Test barrel length: 24 inches. Source (s): Hodgdon Powder Company [ 1] The .22 Hornet or 5.6×36mmR Hornet[ 2] is a varminting, small-game hunting, survival and competition centerfire rifle cartridge commercially introduced in 1930. It is considerably more powerful than the rimfire .22 WMR and the .17 HMR, achieving higher velocity with a ...
Ball propellant. Ball propellant (trademarked as Ball Powder by Olin Corporation and marketed as spherical powder by Hodgdon Powder Company [1]) is a form of nitrocellulose used in small arms cartridges. Ball propellant can be manufactured more rapidly with greater safety and less expense than extruded propellants.
Hodgdon's Pyrodex is a widely available substitute for black powder. Pyrodex is less sensitive to ignition than black powder. It also contains more energy per unit of mass than black powder, but is less dense. Therefore, it is often substituted at a 1:1 ratio by volume for black powder. [ 4]
Source (s): Hodgdon [1] The .25-20 Winchester / 6.6x33mmR, or WCF (Winchester center fire), was developed around 1895 for the Winchester Model 1892 lever action rifle. It was based on necking down the .32-20 Winchester. In the early 20th century, it was a popular small game and varmint round, developing around 1,460 ft/s with 86-grain bullets.
Source(s): Nosler Load Data, [1] Hodgedon Reloading Data Center [2] The .338 Federal is a rifle cartridge based on the .308 Winchester case necked up to .33 caliber . It was created by Federal Cartridge and Sako in 2006 and intended as a big-game cartridge with reasonable recoil for lightweight rifles.