WST Equivalent

Yesterday I had a revelation about cleaning up my act.  What would be the WST equivalent to 3.9g of Bullseye?
Thanks in advance 
Alex

Probably 4.1

Or 4.2, since 3.5 Bullseye equals about 3.8 of WST.  Either should work.

Thank you Gentlemen.

I did exactly what you're contemplating.  4.1 works great and I clean my gun twice a year now, whether it needs it or not.

rreid wrote:I did exactly what you're contemplating.  4.1 works great and I clean my gun twice a year now, whether it needs it or not.

Exactly

I recently put a 9000sc dot on my 45.  The front glass needs to be cleaned every 100+/- rounds or so.  I was afraid it would be damaged after multiple cleanings.  Thanks for all the responses.
Alex

tceva wrote:I recently put a 9000sc dot on my 45.  The front glass needs to be cleaned every 100+/- rounds or so.  I was afraid it would be damaged after multiple cleanings.  Thanks for all the responses.
Alex

did you put oil or grease/lube on the barrel bushing?

Yes I do Chris, a drop of amsoil.  I see your point, kind of a trade off.  Indoors it's not so bad, with the air flow the way it is.  Is there something better to lube it with?
Alex

Get yourself those sunshields for the front of your 9000,

tceva wrote:Yes I do Chris, a drop of amsoil.  I see your point, kind of a trade off.  Indoors it's not so bad, with the air flow the way it is.  Is there something better to lube it with?
Alex

Had same problem.. was oil on barrel/bushing not powder. Use tw25b or axle grease and you can go back to all our favorite powder bullseye! As far as AMS oil goes, i think i like it...but waiting on a phone call from the marketing guy.

Sorry for being illiterate, but how does oiling the bushing/barrel contact area (which I do with FP10) prevent unburnt Bullseye powder from accumulating on the scope lens (which it still does)?  Or am I totally not getting Chris' point?

p.s. I shoot an Accuracy X and per Steve Huff, grease is a no-no on his guns.

joy2shoot wrote:Sorry for being illiterate, but how does oiling the bushing/barrel contact area (which I do with FP10) prevent unburnt Bullseye powder from accumulating on the scope lens (which it still does)?  Or am I totally not getting Chris' point?

p.s. I shoot an Accuracy X and per Steve Huff, grease is a no-no on his guns.

a lot/most/all of whats getting on the lens is oil not the powder.

Chris Miceli wrote:a lot/most/all of whats getting on the lens is oil not the powder.

Thanks for the clarification Chris.  I guess in my case it is 'some' since I did not notice this issue until I switched from N310 to Bullseye and what I see is the 'pepper' specks.  But I will take a closer look for oil buildup.

If I could hijack for just a second.  I shoot 4.0 BE and would like to try wst.  ANy suggestions?  Also, loads listed above? Are they for a slide mounted dot?  I use a slide mounted 9000 S.C. and 11 lb spring.

4.0 to 4.2.  WST is just a tad slower than Bullseye.

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From the 14th edition  (early 1990s)

lablover wrote:If I could hijack for just a second.  I shoot 4.0 BE and would like to try wst.  ANy suggestions?  Also, loads listed above? Are they for a slide mounted dot?  I use a slide mounted 9000 S.C. and 11 lb spring.

Finally had some time to nail this down.  Many thanks to Tom G. for the motivation.  10lb spring.  KC rebarreled this Les Baer about a year ago.
Alex

Did you work up to that load of 5.0 gr of wst with the 185 jhp.  Pretty impressive load for sure

lablover wrote:Did you work up to that load of 5.0 gr of wst with the 185 jhp.  Pretty impressive load for sure

I was working more with N310, but as the air temps started to cool off, I canned it.
There was no mistaking it when I got close.   I got to 4.6, and things were looking good, but offhand not so good. 
5.0 in the RR was spot on.  Offhand Calls were just right, like it was meant to be.
Air temp on that day was in the low 60's.  The heavy dots really define the more temp sensitive powders.
There are plenty of folks that will argue the temp sensitivity of N310,   for me it was a no go.
The brass I was using was destined for the short line.  Plenty of reloads
Alex

Alex (or anybody else who wants to chime in), can you tell a difference in the felt recoil between BE powder and WST?  For me, I can tell a difference between my short line BE powder load and my N310 load.  I find N310 to be softer/easier/more manageable/etc.  Thanks.

For me the feeling of equal weight bullets at equal velocities, WST feels softer. The noise is also much less with WST contrasted with BE. Additionally, I believe the blast temperature is much hotter with BE. 

One day I was shooting and there was a slight head wind. I felt a heat wave in the face when I shot BE, not so much with WST. Lastly, I found that the brass was hotter with BE than with WST. The later was discovered, shooting prone one day, and the brass was bouncing off of something and landing near my arm. Verified by shooting a shot, then picking up that piece of brass. Contrasting BE vs WST fired brass.

joy2shoot wrote:Alex (or anybody else who wants to chime in), can you tell a difference in the felt recoil between BE powder and WST?  For me, I can tell a difference between my short line BE powder load and my N310 load.  I find N310 to be softer/easier/more manageable/etc.  Thanks.

Thomas, I will second everything you said.  The WST as in the last post seemed to have a much more manageable recoil.  I am using WLP primers, and the cases reflect the cleaner burn.  Do you have to bump up your N310 LL loads this time of year?
Alex

Thanks Allgoodhits, good info.
 
Alex, I do notice a change when using N310 in cold weather.  I do not change charge weight.  I try to keep the ammo in the pocket.

joy2shoot wrote:Thanks Allgoodhits, good info.
 
Alex, I do notice a change when using N310 in cold weather.  I do not change charge weight.  I try to keep the ammo in the pocket.

At my match last Saturday after each string I would load my magazines and put them in my pocket with a couple hand warmers that you can buy for a dollar. After scoring, by the time the command to load was given, my magazines were quite warm.

Bill