Accurate 2230-c

[tommyintx]

Has anyone else used this powder? What calibers/results?
Does anyone know anywhere it can be purchased at anymore?

It was a powder manufactured by accurate arms for "Duplicating the load of the military M193". It is a ball powder with about the same burn rate of AA2230.

I've been looking for some for some time. Best powder i've ever found for my little eagle ar-15.

 

[Canuck-IL]

AA doesn't even list it so I'd presume it was short-lived as it didn't offer significant benefits over others already in their product line. 2230 and H335 commonly provide great results and good metering for that weight bullet.
/Bryan

 

[tommyintx]

I have tried h335 and it didn't perform as I hoped. Regular 2230 is an extruded powder and I am trying to reserve use of spherical powders, for the ease of measuring in my dillon. Nothing has ever worked so well in 223 semis for me. Hoping someone has a source for it, or knows someone with a garage full of the stuff. I am down to my last 16 lbs.

 

[Galil5.56]

Here is quoted material I have from AA:

Designation: Accurate -- 2230-C.

Type: Double base Spherical powder.

Category: Medium fast Rifle powder

Time supplied: Between 2001 and 2005.

Information: We do not have specific published load information for the 2230 C powder. It’s a military surplus “Spherical” or “Spherical” powder, which is basically a derivative of the standard AA 2230 and 2460 powders. 2230 C is slightly slower burning than the standard AA 2230 product, which makes it more equivalent to AA2460. You can use any published load information, on any caliber configuration, for the standard AA2460 product AS IS. Since the powder can be used in a wide variety of caliber/configurations (too many to list here).

Reloading Data: We do not publish data use A 2460 data AS IS.

I can tell you from first hand experience AA2460 is top notch in .223/5.56 for making M193 clone ammo (damn nice in .308 and 303 British too), and it would seem this 2230C is a nice low cost alternative to it.

BTW, unless something radical has happened over at AA very, very recently, canister grade AA2230 we get is ball.

 

[oldreloader]

"BTW, unless something radical has happened over at AA very, very recently, canister grade AA2230 we get is ball. "

The canister I got from Weidner's 2 weeks ago is ball powder.

 

[Canuck-IL]

Given the quoted material above, try 2460 - - I use it with 69 - 77gr and it's been excellent - meters fine.
/B

 

[tommyintx]

This one's on me, i seem to have been under the impression 2230 is a spherical powder. Apparently 2230 AND 2460 are spherical, which is great. I have gotten away from all extruded powders except for varget, which i keep about 40 pounds on hand at all times, of the same lot number. I will pick up a couple pounds of both 2230 and 2460 and do some load development. .223 and .308 and .30 carbine are the ONLY rifle cartridges i load on a progressive press (dillon 550), and i have completely given up on flake and extruded powders for the dillon, because ball powder measures so much more consistently. I only trickle extruded on the RCBS chargemaster and with a BR-3 + trickler with a 5.10 RCBS scale. Hopefully one of the two will give similar results. I can remember extensively doing load development for weeks on end with over 25 powder variations before stumbling upon 2230C, and nothing back then could compare to the results we achieved, and lately i have tried other powders, some with better accuracy than others, but still none compare to the 2230-c.

 

[tommyintx]

Reverse engineering my dads favorite load from 2001. I still have every piece of brass from that lot. I just have to replace the primer, because we used WSR white box which were nickel coated hard primers and aren't made the same anymore.

 

[Galil5.56]

Curious to see how the new 2230 made in Belgium and US made 2460 perform... It really is amazing just how many places/countries were used to source AA propellants, and instead of China, Czechoslovakia, and Israel; It's now Belgium, Canada, and USA for rifle propellants. Could be wrong, but when one of the plants they used exploded, I think even Olin, or whoever at that time was running the St Marks facility provided some propellants.

I too really like the way AA2460 works in my 550B loading .223, and the consistency is amazing. I really never worked up much ammo for accuracy in my IMI Galil ARM; and be it H335, AA2460, WW748, you name it, it was all blasting ammo, and all was surprisingly accurate for the purpose at hand and 100% reliable. Good luck with your work-ups.

 

[Wireman134]

43.5gr. gives sub MOA M80 loads in my 7.62mm T26 Garand +1 2230, 2460 & 2520 ball powder

 

[Cemetery21]

2230S and 2230C are out of production. I still have a few kegs of C but not willing to sell.
As stated, 2230 is also a ball powder.
Xterminator and TAC are other fine ball powders for the applications mentioned.

 

[Galil5.56]

Looking over my chronograph log dated 7/95:

45 grains of AA2460, WW cases, and WW 147 grain FMJ-BTs got 2816 fps avg from an Israeli 7.62 K98.

Same day, same bullet, 49.5 grains of AA2460 got 2999 fps avg from my stock 30/06 Winchester 1917 Enfield.

Same day .303 British loads using 40.5 grains of AA2460, WW cases, and Rem 180 grain RNCL bullets got 2413 fps avg from a No4 MKII Lee-Enfield.

My bottle from that era has no "Made in" marked anywhere on it... My best guess says Israel or Czechoslovakia.

Really like the stuff, and really want to try some AA2230-C.