is h380 any good I found a store that selling it out like 30.06 308 7x57 or 270 rifles
is h380 any good I found a store that selling it out like 30.06 308 7x57 or 270 rifles
Last edited by milltownhunter; 12-29-2019 at 04:05 PM.
Was real good in the .22-250. It seems to me it was close in burn rate to 4064 and would therefore be real good in medium size rifle cartridges.
It was originally a 3006 military powder. WC852 non flattened ball. It will work in everything you listed, I like it in the 8mm also.
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You can go to this link for your data.
http://www.hodgdonreloading.com/
Being phased out , i think...Zanders has it on close out..
It was a darling in my brothers .284 winchester. He ran out in August and we could not find it anymore.
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That's all I use in my Ruger #1 in 22-250!
Excellent also for 223 Rem-- just slightly slower burning than CFE 223
Hick: Iron sights!
Great in a 338/06 with 250 gr Hornady's
IT AINT what ya shoot--its how ya shoot it. NONE of us are as smart as ALL of us!
If they are phasing out H380 then Bruce Hodgdon will be turning over in his grave!
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“There is more to this than dumping lead in a hole.”
make sure to check if it needs magnum primer in bigger cases I had it not light before in my 300 with normal primers
H380
It's all I use in .308.
I better go shopping.
I bought some from bullets.com when they were closing their powder out for something like $12 pound. Bought several pounds but have not used any yet. Too good a deal to pass up and I'm hoping to use it all some day. Looks like bullets.com is no longer in business??
As of this morning, 12/30/2019, Hodgdon H380 is not discontinued. This comes via telephone call to them. However, because they have released several new powders recently, they claim that sales of some of the older stuff have declined in favor of the new. Apparently some internet vendors are not going to carry the older powders?
I hope the internet gossip-mongers don't start a run on this powder because of a crisis that doesn't exist...
I got my top velocities in my 22-250 and light bullets with H380. But, I found it left a lot of "soot" in my barrel. So, I kind of quit using it because 4895 and a heavier bullet was as accurate and I could shoot longer without cleaning the bore.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |