I just wanted to post this; I apologize for being so late to announce the news.
The creator of this thread, Ed Hubel, Hubel458, passed away back in November '21. I stayed in constant contact with Ed over the years ever since the beginning of this thread was started. This was the very thread, created here, that introduced me to Ed so many years ago. I went to contact him on another forum that I would speak to him through and I received a phone call from his son recently, who informed me of his passing. It hit me like a ton of bricks. Here is one of the obituaries I found online:
https://www.echovita.com/us/obituaries/mi/farwell/edward-hubel-13637491
Ed was a phenomenal innovator of large bore cartridges. Many of them like this one, the 12 gauge FH, were straight cases, but he was also developing new bottleneck cases as of recent years. In fact one of them that he made me aware of, won a King of 2 Mile event last year. He told me that his neighbor ended up chambering the round and shooting it in one of the matches. There were a few of them he was working on recently and I can't recall which of the three it was that I'm aware of but I believe it was a 375 cal. I know he helped develop the 416 HSM, and if you do a search on that cartridge you'll likely find a photo of it next to a 416 Barrett, seemingly dwarfing the Barrett in size.
As you can see Ed always wanted to put info out there for others to learn from, constantly updating the boards on anything he was learning at the time. He helped me work on two different projects over the years of my own and I can say that he contributed knowledge that went above and beyond knowledge I could obtain seemingly anywhere else but from him. He was very in tune with how certain powders actually performed differently than others and how some had very specific traits that other powders did not. That was one of the things that fascinated me and he would back up what he was saying with data from pressure testing sessions that he would show me. I was then able to replicate the results in my own testing, and again, some of the knowledge he passed on just continued to fascinate me.
I could go on for hours talking about stuff for which Ed was the man to speak to about, but ultimately I just wanted to let others know that we lost another one of the greats.
Thank you Ed for all that you have done for the sport, and you truly will be missed.
-Matt