Thread: Shaved cordite

Originally Posted by Rock river arms hunter

Got a bit of a odd one here


So.

My understanding is cordite is like spaghetti sticks.

Which is what 303 mark 7 ball used for its powder.

I know of someone who is wanting to load Shaved cordite for 303 using a 174gr projectile.

Everything I've heard is saying this is not a wise move.

Could anyone shed light on this for me please ?

Clickbangs is a product of Cordite being slow to ignite, and having aged and gone a bit slower still to ignite. WHEN it ignites it is a HOT powder to the extent of severely eroding barrel throats. Nitrocellulose with quite high nitroglycerin content, and a bit of vaseline phlegmatiser. Flaking Cordite sticks (see my avatar) so as to increase the Cordite's surface area (by a factor of 10x? 20x?? more??) sounds dangerous, as in exploding chamber dangerous.

If you must load 174grain bullets in .303 and you have Cordite on hand, why not just get some tweezers and load the Cordite sticks one by one? But use magnum primers.