Winchester 296
Comprehensive load data for Winchester 296 reloading powder und technical specifications for this propellant.
Product number: PID_320
Manufacturer number: 296
Load data for powder "Winchester 296"
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Winchester 296 is a ball powder developed for large handgun loads. An ideal solution for loading 357 Magnum, 44 Magnum, and even 410-bore shotshell ammunition, its high loading density provides optimal velocity. Winchester 296 is also recommended for 410-bore AA loads.
| Relative Burn Rate: | 4 (0 ... slow| 10 ... fast) |
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| Weapon Use: | Pistole / Revolver |
| Density: | 101.13 lb/ft3 | 1620 kg/m3 |
| Bulk density: | 61.68 lb/ft3 | 988 kg/m3 |
Winchester
Oliver Fisher Winchester was an innovative and driven man who saw the future of firearms and built an industrial empire around the lever-action rifle. Born in Boston in 1810, Winchester’s initial foray into business was as a maker of men’s shirts. Seeing the economic potential of the fast-growing firearms industry, Winchester began to assemble investors and secure venture capital, and in 1857 bought a controlling interest in the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company from two inventive gentlemen named Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson.
Winchester continued to refine firearm designs with inventors Benjamin Tyler Henry and Nelson King, and on May 22,1866 the Winchester Repeating Arms Company was born. For the next 14 years Winchester aggressively sought new markets, created new products and explored new opportunities for his lever-action rifles. With the opening of the American West to settlement and the ongoing military conflicts in Europe and the Near East, the demand for Winchester firearms and ammunition remained strong. In ill health for some time, Oliver F. Winchester died December 11, 1880 at age 70 in New Haven, Connecticut. He had groomed his son, William Wirt Winchester as his successor, but the younger Winchester died of tuberculosis in March of the following year before he could assume control of Winchester Repeating Arms.