While my older brothr worked for General Dynamics (who owns Saint Marks Powders in Florida), I got to try out lots of Ball Powders which had been produced for shotshells; in my handguns. FREE POWDER gets used! So I used WW473AA,WW540, WST,WSL, and lots of FREE powders which were never available to the public. All of them worked from fairly well to really well in all of my handguns. But sometimes I got to also play with some of their Experimental powders which were worthless for handguns. So I am of the oppinion that nearly any powder Could be used: But Only handgun powders should be used in them