Grouse – You are thinking in black and white. According to your thought process, no-one should use any powder whatsoever except FFG BP and Pyrodex in an Encore since the manual doesn’t give load data for it. Nothing else but Pyrodex or real BP is acceptable in an Encore. No T7, White Hots, American Pioneer, Goex Pinnacle, and definitely NO BH209. In fact, no BP FG or FFFG, since the manual doesn’t say so. Not to mention your max load for the Encore is way off…at least for the barrel Omega45 has.

No, the manual doesn’t mention weighing charges. And with BP and just about every other BP sub I am aware of, you shouldn’t, due to the fact that it is hydroscopic. BH209 is not hydroscopic. Therefore it can more accurately be weighed than measured by volume. If you find that 115gr BH209 by volume is your most accurate load, you could measure out 115gr by volume as accurately as possible and dump it into your powder scale to find out what its equivalent weight is (I have no idea what that is, let’s say it’s 75gr by weight). You could then weigh 75gr BH209 1,000 times, and never once would it surpass the 115gr mark on your powder measure. Conversely, if you were to measure out 115gr BH209 by volume a 1,000 times and dump it onto your scale, you’d get 1,000 different readings on the scale (to the tenths or hundredths place) because measuring by volume just ain’t as accurate.