Powders you have given up on?

[noylj]

Blue Dot: Speer 100 JHP/9.6gn Blue Dot/Compressed load/1495 fps/no pressure signs from primer, recoil, of case expansion. Just couldn't put more powder in the case.

AA2: Still my most accurate powder for light (<850 fps) target loads in .38 Special Wadcutter, .45ACP, and .40S&W

AA5: Still my most accurate powder for mid-range (<1050fps) load in .40 S&W, .38 Super, 9x21, and 9x19.

Silhouette: Still my most accurate powder for above mid-range load in 9x19, 9x21, .38 Super, and .40 S&W.

2400: Still my most accurate powder for .44 Rem Mag, .357 Mag, and .45 Win Mag.

 

[Ky Larry]

1. Unique. The old 'Flaming Dirt" was the nastiest stuff I've ever shot. The "New, Improved, Cleaner Burning" Unique is the second nastiest stuff I have ever shot.

2. Varget. It's okay but thats all it is. It shoot pretty good but I haven't found it to be better than my old stand-bys for accuracy. For example, AA-2460 shoots better in .223, IMR-4350 shoots better in my .243, IMR-3031 shoots better in my .22-250, etc.

3. IMR-4007 SSC. Same as Varget.

4. Win 760. I could never get it to shoot any better than so-so in .30-06. Went back to Re-19.

5. H335. See 2 above.

 

[BBDartCA]

1. Unique. The old 'Flaming Dirt" was the nastiest stuff I've ever shot. The "New, Improved, Cleaner Burning" Unique is the second nastiest stuff I have ever shot.

Thats funny!

 

[Kosh75287]

Green Dot. Not as versatile as Unique, not as economical as Bullseye. It must do wondrous things in shotguns, but I never noticed it doing much that appealed to me in pistols.

 

[jolly roger]

Excellent ones

231 for target 38, 9, and 45 cast bullets
HS6 for full power 9mm and 45
Universal Clays for mid range 357 and 44 Specials
2400 for max load cast bullet magnums
H110 for max load jacketed magnums
RL 15 for several rifle loads
a TON of H335 for 223 plinkers

Dont use much anymore

Bullseye, Unique, Blue Dot

 

[zxcvbob]

Green Dot. Not as versatile as Unique, not as economical as Bullseye. It must do wondrous things in shotguns, but I never noticed it doing much that appealed to me in pistols.

I just bought a pound of Green Dot. I haven't used it in years but I remember it being a good powder in 9mm with light bullets, and that's what I bought this for. It also ought to be good in .380 and .38 Special.

 

[chrt396]

800X, Blue Dot, Power Pistol, Clays

I've got it down to the following powders:

9mm, 45 acp - Tite Group
45 acp - Bullseye
40 cal, 38 special - AA#5
357 magnum - 2400
41 magnum - H110
223, 308 - Varget, IMR 4064

The powder cabinet inventory has gone WAAAYYY down.

 

[Elkins45]

With as badly as 800X meters, how can you develop any love for it?

If there's a powder that meters worse that 800X I hope to never encounter it. That said, it is absolutely the best powder for top end loads with light bullets in 10mm as long as you are willing to hand weigh them. As one fellow described it on one of the forums: " it meters like a measure full of paper plates!"

 

[ranger335v]

I no longer use Hi-Vel 2.

 

[bergmen]

I no longer use Hi-Vel 2.

Probably because it hasn't been available for decades.

Dan

 

[james layman]

powders that won't give up

Just for fun I checked my 1942 loading manual. Double base is nitroglycern, include bullseye(1898), unique(1900) and 2400(1937). You don't want a double charge of this. The straight nitrocellouse progressive burn powders have a flash retardent. Includes 3031(1934), and 4064, 4198, 4227,4320 (1935). I don"t know much about newer powders, but these puppies will be around a long time. Nitro is nitro. Dynamite is dynamite. They all will propel bullets. Have a great time reloading and shooting. James

 

[greenlion]

I gave up on every powder Alliant Powder makes in favor of Hodgdon Powders.