Thread: The 16" 270

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Surprisingly I thought that the suppressor would be black as anything after just a few rounds but looking in it with a torch it's not, R17 seems a strange powder being on the slow burning end of the spectrum but it works well in short barrels in a lot of calibers, guess I will have to give it the old night time test with no suppressor to really see what's getting burnt outside the barrel

take a picture?

Quickload says that with that barrel length and load (but not tuned for COL and case capacity) that you are burning a bit over 98% of the powder. That's not too bad, lots of fairly popular loads are round the 95%