.45 ACP Load, unburnt powder, dirty gun, help!! The Firing Line Forums
Note that incomplete burning is going to be characteristic of loads in pistollength barrels that produce maximum velocities. I doesn't matter which high power factor producing powder you use, in order to get maximum acceleration in the short tube without exceeding peak pressure limitations, you have to eat that inefficiency and the extra recoil that results, but the bullet has a move on.