what's yer favorite powder

[Nrut]

Unique and 2400 and I don't have to use Dacron...

[josper]

My favorite powder is a toss up between IMR 4198 and RX-7 others that have worked well are 2400 and IMR 4895,and H4895. There are so many others that work well the list goes on and on.

[wolters4]

I like IMR4198

[Matthew 25]

Reloader & and 3031 for hunting. I like Unique for plinkers, but I hardly ever plink.

[marvelshooter]

Bullseye with Unique running a distant second. I am mostly a pistol shooter and Bullseye goes in everything. Unique for some 9mm and mid-range .357 and also it's what I have used so far in a .38-55 I am starting to play with

[Loudenboomer]

Except for pistol cals. IMR3031 will do it all for all most anything with a lever but I like Win 748 threw the Dillon.

[44 flattop]

42grs 3031 and a 420 cast at 1510fps shoots plumb through an elk. The only hunting load I have used.

11-15grs of Unique with just about any bullet is nothing short of fantastic.

44

[Rafe Covington]

Accurate Arms 5744.

Rafe

[pls1911]

.38, .357, .44, .45Colt, .45 ACP, 30-30, .308, .270, .416 Remington, .45-70, 12 and 20 gauge shotguns:

Nothing in my safe requires anything other than
1. Unique
2. 2400
3. Reloader 7 (or H322)

For J-Word bullets, possibly stretch to add
4. 3031
5. 4064

[gunsbrad]

I shoot almost a case of 3f swiss through my high wall each year, but my levergun gets Reloader 7.

Brad Hurt

[Chill Wills]

The Holy Black

[Swampman]

IMR-4198 is my favorite since the 1970s.

[1Shirt]

2400 for me with dac fill (which is a safety factor as well as an accuracy factor) because you have to look in the case to place fill. Some place between 20-26 grains with most 350-400 grain blts. will probably be at least close to as accurate load as you will find. Less powder also means less cost. Would not be without 2400 and Reloader 7 for cast rifle shooting.
1Shirt!

[white eagle]

H-4895,Varget,2015,Imr 3031 are a few of mine as of the moment
haven't tried black powder........YET !

[jh45gun]

I too use 2400

[GMW]

My Trap Door 1884 and Shilo Sharps both live on a diet of Goex Express 2F. My Guide Gun likes a J-word 300gr bullet over 60grs of 3031.......you must hang on!

Did I mention that my guide gun eats scopes.

[Hednign]

Swiss 1 1/2 (no4). Followed by Wano 2F Sporting.

[midnight]

My advice to a guy who just bought a 41 Mag years ago was to get a big jug of Unique and a big jug of 2400. It's the same advice today. Rifles are a different story. 4350,4895.4064,3031,4198, 4831, RL7, RL22, RL15, Varget, etc, ect, ect. You can't get too many. Nobody has yet mentioned THE LOAD, 13gr Red Dot.

Bob

[vinniedude]

Hello friends. I'm a longtime fan of this site but only a recent signee. I echo the posts here that Unique works for justabout everything / I've been using it for 30yrs from .38 Special thru .30-06 with homecast boolits. Bought a chronograph 10yrs ago which added to the fun and tweaking of home-engineered loads, yet when supplies of Unique dried-up several years ago I bought some Nobel Sport Vectan #A0 to experiment with and found it wholly acceptable as a replacement for Unique. Nobel Sport's published data for A0 in metallic cartridges is sparse and spotty, but they have a chart that says A0 is applicable to any metallic ctg load with cast boolits and what data they publish for specific cartridges is very similar to published Unique data if you compare them side-to-side, so I took that as a baseline of some safe starting values to see how loads would clock on the chronograph. This is the province of "proceed with caution" but it became evident that A0 is slightly less powerful than Unique (less velocity per equal charge weight) and similar to Herco too (a cousin formulation) so I worked from there and generated several dandy loads that were obviously safe replacements for Unique for plinking and target shooting. We all enjoy working up "pet loads" and I'm happy to report that A0 is good stuff totally applicable to cast boolit shooting and it exhibits very low velocity deviation and clean burn. My only quandary now is should I return to using Unique ? Nah. The suits and beancounters at Alliant forgot about us reloaders when they were servicing Gov contracts and it forced me and other reloaders to seek alternative powders. Thereafter I found A0 is a keeper, and a very good one at that. I welcome trading info and experiences / put a shoutout here. Happy reloading ! - Vinnie

[Drm50]

Rifles IMR-4198, Pistols Unique, myself Tang