Great post.
But there is one small error in nomenclature.
A TROY ounce is 480 grains making it about 10% heavier than a regular ounce coming in at 437.5 grains.
Keep up the good work 
Awk, you're right. I'll correct that as soon as I figger out how to spell averdup, er acordup, overdop, er, avoirdupois, hey, that's it.
Thanks.
Excellent post. Even as a non-handloader could follow what you were saying.
Thanks, Harv. My plan is, by the time I'm done, to have a step by step, compnent by component, primer on handloading.
If it comes out as I'd like it to, meaning I do my job right, a person will be able to print out these posts, assemble the components and equipment, and start handloading safe, accurate and effective rifle or handgun ammo from the very start.
Good info. I have been reloading for 50 yrs now (!) and have never heard that 60% rule. Very glad to hear you say that no one has produced cordite in many years. And yet newspaper reporters can still smell it, everytime they get near a battlefield. As far as I know, that stuff disappeared with Hemingway.
Why is it odd that a French chemist made modern smokeless powder possible?
France and Germany were the preeminent land powers at the time and were engaged in what a later generation would have called a cold war. France was on the cutting edge of chemistry. Tremendous effort was expended on obtaining technical military advantage.
A Scotch priest developed percussion ignition, a Swede perfected Dynamite. What's odd about Vielle?
Thanks for that - I too appreciate living in the country, although in Australia (as far as I am aware) there are no storage regulations (other than locking up and signage (for fire fighters)) for powder. I do have a wood stove in my reloading room, but I do not light it when reloading.
Keep up the good work.
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