[Uncle Buck]

Acquantances here in Pa told me to use Blue Dot shotgun powder to make an outstanding reduced fur friendly load in my 22250 for hunting. Anyone else heard about using hand gun aka shotgun powder in center fire rifles for a fur friendly round to kill fox with no blow up in the 22250 calbier?

[Uncle Buck]

Also I know what their recommended Blue Dot powder grains are for the 22250 but oh we what if someone put a double charge of Blue Dot powder into a 22250, reloaded it and shot it... I sure don't want anyone to do that....22250 could look like one of them there Blunderbust guns of old days gone by...

[Mongojoe]

I donno... I do know that Blue Dot can be used in both shotgun loadings and handgun loadings, but I had never heard of it being used in rifle loadings...but alot of people do have their own "pet loads", so it's very possible..... I have never used any Blue Dot powder myself, so don't know much about it.

[bythebook]

Another site I go to there is a lot of people do this UB, but there is also some that has had trouble doing this. Even using the right load there is the a danger of it blowing and I think I would rather go with a heavier bullet and the lowest load in the manual for that powder. The manufacturer warns against it.

[Val]

For reduced loads I would look at the Speer 13 manual. It has tried and proven reduced loads all over that manual. Reduced loads can be dangerous.

[sunray]

It's not the powder. It's the bullet. Match or commercial FMJ's don't expand like a varmint bullet does. Commerical FMJ's are made for hide hunting. Sierra makes a 55 grain FMJ GameKing that would do nicely. You'd have to work up a load, of course.

[Uncle Buck]

Once had a conversation with a Shrink...We got to talking about outdoor things...How people would get so upset at skunks ripping open their garbage bags that they would end up shooting them dead because of it...The shrink said..."Why didn't they just put the garbage in a can with a lid on it instead of putting it in plastic garbage bagsd on the ground?"

See this using shotgun powder to make a center rifle a fur friendly round is kind of like the garbage bag thing and they should be using a garbage can...What one really needs to do is use a 17 Fireball or a 17 Rem center fire... A calbier that is known not to tear the fur...We start to develop a load from pistol and shotgun powder for a center fire and we are just asking for it.... Also Full Metal Jacket Bullets the same thing...Yep they do not blow a big hole in a critter but they sure do not fragment when they strike the ground... they just keep going and going and going right over to the farmers house or the farmers prize bull.

While I have started this post about using Blue Dot shotgun powder to make a 22250 rifle a fur gun might sound neat...I have 3 each 17 center fire rifles that were made to not destroy the hide on all furbearing animals..
Decided to stick to the garbage can with a lid instead of trying to use the plastic garbage bags instead..

[DEN]

Sure hope you werent laying on the couch when you had the conversation with the shrink UB , I sure had reservations about your using powder that isnt recommended for that use, I'm glad you have put the lid on it lol

Den.

[Sodak Jim]

Using Blue Dot in reduced loads is more common than you might think, but I would not do it, or recommend it.

[Uncle Buck]

Know of a person that does use it for fox and he swears by it..Funny he said, "it has more of a pop then a bang when it goes off."