True that, but when looking at loading data for two cartridges with such similar numerical designations (differing by one digit in the middle) the possibility of transposing information becomes concerning.
Call me a nervous Nellie if you will, but I'm active on a lot of shooting related boards and you would be amazed how misinformation can slip in.
Froggie
Hi Froggie,
These are Black Powder Cartridges.
There is no need or use or reliance on 'Loading Data'.
One puts in "as much" Powder as will fit with good compression, for the Bullet of choice to be seated to the depth one wants, and that's it.
if one wants to record or write down how many Grains weight that is, great!
However, Cartidge Case type, it's actual internal volume, will effect how many Grains ( of what granulation ) of Black Powder it can hold, with good compression, and for the Bullet or Ball being used to seat where one wishes.
This is always arrived at empirically, ideally anyway...no matter what any published figures may be.
With either Cartridge, one can use a very small Powder Charge and a Ball seated deeply, or one can use medium charge, Ball or Bullet seated how-ever much less deeply, or, a full charge and a Ball seated as far out as possible, or a full charge with a Bullet, etc.
There is no possibility of any kind of problem transposing anything from the one Cartridge to the other.
What could one transpose?
Nothing...
One could never fit the full charge of Black Powder the .38 - 44 can hold, to the .32 - 44 Cartridge.
It is all self regulating in effect, and fail safe.
Other than to have 'good compression' of Powder, about the only other thing to mind, is to have no Air Gap between Powder and Projectile.
That's it!
Whole other world from the critical 'Loading Densities' of Bullseye or Unique or other fast burning 'Smokeless'.
Back Powder Cartridges have only one Loading density - "Good Compression and no Air Space".
Old Balloon Folded or ( original 'Solid' ) Head Cases hold more than 'modern' Solid Head Cases.
People get in to trouble with fast burning Smokeless Propellants when not observing Loading Density in context of Case Volume and Bullet Weight and Seating depth.
Old published figures for Bullseye Powder ( in Balloon Head Cases ), if one follows the old tables and is using modern Solid Head Cases, one will be way over pressure from what the Balloon Head Case would have been...since the volume of modern Cases is a lot smaller, and thence, one will have goofed up the Loading Density unto Over-Pressure charging, in not being hip to this.
Black Powder, none of that exists.
