HODGDON POWDER CO., INC. - TRAIL BOSS® SMOKELESS PISTOL POWDER

I have used this for years for Cowboy Action shooting.38/.357. Recently I inherited an 1874 vintage Trap Door in .45-70. I found a nice light load for 405 grain bullet at 925 fps. It makes the gun a pleasure to shoot. (Original load is 1200 fps. Gun is 149 years old and I am cautious.) Trail Boss meters well, is bulky enough to see in the case, shoots clean, and is reliable. Very pleased to find it here.

To get free shipping and hazmat with my TiteGroup order I included a bottle of Trail Boss since I've been wanting to try it since it first came out. Loading it is not like any other powder as it has BIG flakes which makes it easy to set the powder measure in my Dillon 550. I've loaded different charges behind 200g & 255g coated bullets for my .45acp. This weekend I plan to target practice and see how they perform.

I started using Trail Boss Powder after reading about it in a couple of Gun Mags. It sounded too good to be true! I have been an avid hand loader for thirty five years, and loaded for everything from .38 S&W to .458 Win Mag. I became interested in six shooters and lever actions while attending the armorers classes at Suzanvilles Lassen Community Collage for my Sheriffs Department. I started doing pistol smithing for friends and grew interested in Linebaughs .475 and .500 big bores. Even modest loads in those beauties wear on yer nerves after a full afternoon. So, TB allows mild but satisfying handloads even the grandkids can enjoy, and the fact that an overcharge is practically impossible to produce, makes it the perfect learning powder too. Kudos to the makers of such a fine product, that can only help to grow interest in my favorite sports!

Makes 44 magnum and 450 marlin comfortable to shoot. Good for young shooters that may be turned off by recoil.

I had an incident with another brand powder when I accidentally double charged one case to which it split the case in the chamber of my rifle. As a result, I had to take it to a gunsmith to extract it. A fellow shooter recommended Trail Boss powder. I got some and never looked back. You can not double charge a .38 special case with Trail Boss because of its large cylinder shaped flake, it takes up a lot of room in the case. It is a good powder for competitive shooting because it burns consistently and is not too dirty. The powder feeds very well through my Dillon 550B. Because I do competitive shooting (CAS) I have not really looked into how accurate my groupings are. If I shoot at the target and I get a pinging sound of the bullet hit, that accurate enough for me.