Your experience with BLC-2?

Works really well in 7mm TCU and it did well in .30-06.

Blc-2 Love this stuff it works well for so many calibers .308 .223.ect.... meters well and very accurate with lighter bullets 150gr in .308 55gr .223 and so on.
IMHO

I use it in 308 Win. with 168gr Nosler's with very good results.

It was the original 7.62 NATO military powder when the M-14 was put in service.

It should work finer then frog hair.

Read about it here.
https://www.hodgdon.com/rifle.html

rc

I tried quite a few powders in a 223 Remington with lighter bullets, i.e., in the 50 to 55 grain range, and BL-C(2) gave me the best accuracy.

Interestingly, my grandson was shooting at my place a couple of weeks ago and was unhappy with the cheap ammo he had bought because of poor accuracy. I gave him some of my BL-C(2) loads to try and the little boy put 3 into about 0.5 inches at 100 yards.

In the olden times (60's), ball C (there was no 2 yet), was the top powder for
.222 Rem bench rest.

I use it for .223 today, just because I have it, but there are probably better powders today.

Was going to post the same question as the OP but I'm wondering more on a AR rifle.

Like said above, BL-C(2) was the original 7.62mm NATO powder. You can still buy WC846 which is the surplus version of the same. IMO it's a very good choice for the .308 especially since you have 8 lbs which will last a while.

Never used it myself, but a bunch of guys I knew with FALs(before they were declared evil) and the like thought it was great. Funny how there was no arguements about 7.62NATO being any different than .308 Win in those days.
"...In the olden times (60's), ball C (there was no 2 yet)..." Um, 7.62NATO predates the 60's.

I just finished loading 700 rounds of .223 an hour ago using it. So far I've used 55gn FMJs and SPs, but I also loaded thirty rounds of 69gn HPBT to try out tomorrow. I load 25.9gns for 3000fps with a 55gn bullet, according to the Hornady manual.

I've loaded over 2,000 rounds of .223 using BLC2 so far and prefer it over Varget slightly more. I've also loaded about 100 .308s so far using BLC2 and also like it.

A word of caution... OK, two...

IME, not as predictable as my IMR "stick" powders (goes from OK to over pressure very quickly). Didn't like to be compressed. At all. Keep an eye on the powder level and where the base of the bullet is. Different brass will have different capacity, sometimes you can't get to the max load in your brass. I got very erratic velocity at the very top end, right when the powder just started to compress... (chrony is my most important reloading tool)

Temperature sensitivity. In one case (pun intended), loads I worked up in high temps lost ~80fps in low temps (high 80's vs low 30's). If you work up a load in cold weather, and you are near max, work it up again if you plan to shoot in hot weather.

Works well in 223, 308, and 30-30 for me.

I get better results if I work my load up using mag. primers with BLC2, from 223 to 30-30. My loads were worked up in summer time, but I refrigerated some to simulate cold weather shooting. According to my chroney and targets, mag primers were the way to go for me.

BLC-2 has worked well for me in 223 in an AR rifle.

A lot of really good comments and information here that I wasn't aware of.

Worked well for me in .223 (5.56) I liked the load range for different bullet weights using it. (from Hodgdon)
50gr 25.2 - 28
70gr 24 -26.5
so it would "seem" a little more flexible than faster powders in the caliber. (H335 for example)

Meters great.

My 308 bolt gun did not like it with Speer 165 grain SP.

I just loaded up some 150 grain Hornady SP to try out in my DPMS 308 to see if I can get those to work.

One other thing to watch: Supposedly it's temperature sensitive, and can produce excessive pressure in high temperatures (read, Iraq & Afghanistan).

FWIW, I'm preparing to do a head-to-head comparison of BLC(2), Varget, and AR-Comp in .308 with 168-gr Sierra bullets. Stay tuned...

I almost loaded to max yesterday when I was loading up test loads, but remembered to stop shy of max. I am using lake city brass, and the last time I loaded a ball powder (WC-844) it went from no pressure signs to knocking out primers and flowing brass against the bolt.

It's all I use for my M1A. And if I didn't use 4895 for my two Garands, I would use BLC-2.

'nuff said

So I tried out the test loads, and I am not happy with BLC-2 in a 1/2 a grain I pierced a primer. Start was 45g primer issues at 46g max is listed at 49 grains.

New DPMS GII recon in 308. 150 grain Hornady soft point. According to Lyman starting is 45 grains max is 49 grains. That happened at 46 grains. 45 and 45.5 grains the primers all looked good. I am also using Lake City brass.

grubbylabs said:

So I tried out the test loads, and I am not happy with BLC-2 in a 1/2 a grain I pierced a primer. Start was 45g primer issues at 46g max is listed at 49 grains.

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Why would you automatically assume it's a powder problem and not a primer problem. It's rare but it could be a defective primer. Where there any other signs of excessive pressures? Was extraction difficult? Is the internal case volume less than other brass you have loaded? Are you 100% sure there was only 46.0gr powder in the case?

It very well may be a powder problem but not an automatic indictment.