Anyone Using Ramshot Competition?

I found a pound of this really cheap a while back. I worked up some 38 spl. 148gr. SWCHP with it a couple weeks ago. It seemed to do pretty well. Of course I was shooting off hand out of a snub nose, so the groups weren’t spectacular. I sold my 357 a while back, but I’m saving for another. It will be a 5” S&W Performance Center. When I get it, I’ll do some actual accuracy tests with those loads.
Anybody else use this powder for anything?

GeoDudeFlorida said:

Yup. Some of the regulars here told me it’s a good light load 9mm and .40S&W powder. They weren’t wrong. So far it’s been an easy powder to find uses for: 200gr LSWC .45ACP, 180gr LRNFP .40S&W, 125gr LRN-NLG 9mm, 95gr LTC .380ACP. All lead loads so far have been accurate and low dust, no leading. But, I go for accuracy, not flame and fury.

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Nice! I thought about using it in 40 S&W myself. I’ve got a box of 165gr. Berry’s I might try it with.

AJC1 said:

I believe my dad liked 3.3 grains in a 38 but he had a bunch at 3 grains. The lack of a log book is hurting my brain.

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3.3 and 3.2 both seemed to work really well with the 148gr SWCHP I was loading.

BBarn said:

I used a couple cans of it in past years. It's much like other fast burning shotgun/pistol powders, working well in the same applications. It's light in color making it easy to see in the cases, and it flowed reasonably well i\through my powder measure. But it is not as low cost as it appears. The bottles contain 12oz., versus 1lb. (16 oz.) for most other powders. So you only get 75% as much powder in the bottle.

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I didn’t notice that when I bought it….. Oh well, I’ll still get a ton of loads out of that.

Just got done loading up 30 test rounds of 40 S&W 165 gr Berry’s with Competition for tomorrow morning. We’ll see how it goes.