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3N38 and 180grn 10mm

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I am not a VV sales person!!
VV 3N38 measures real good as it is real small granules.

There is not a lot of info that i could find on this combination.
I thought i would try some and was surprised. Pleasantly!

Please use this data at your own risk
cold 30 degree day, 5 shots of each
Powder/amount/montana gold hp/180 grains/primer/case/OAL/av. fps/PF/ES/SD/notes

3N38 11.4 MG HP 180 cci300 S&B 1.26 1336 240 ES51 SD21
3N38 11.7 MG HP 180 cci300 S&B 1.26 1358 244 ES66 SD34
3N38 11.9 MG HP 180 cci300 S&B 1.26 1371 247 ES31 SD14
3N38 12.1 MG HP 180 cci300 S&B 1.26 1381 249 SD19.8
3N38 12.3 MG HP 180 cci300 S&B 1.265 1413 254 SD22 © worked, flat primers call max 254 22.1

The (C) = compressed load, notice is seated the bullet out 0.005" due to no more space in the case.

The last two loads did not have a Extreme Spread as i lost that data.

The last load was notably stiffer to shoot.

all fired in a G20 with a 5" lone wolf barrel (fully supported) and slide

Please take care if you are trying to repeat these in a stock glock barrel.

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