6Arc Powders

champ198

champ198

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I know a lot seem to use the Leveroloution powder but I hear it is pretty dirty.
What are some other powders you all have found to work well for the heavier bullets like the 103s etc.
Looking at maybe trying some CFE223
 
I was recently talking to someone about this except they were shooting 105 Hybrids and the two powders that did well for them was H414 and IMR4895
 
You have a quite a few options to choose from though keep in mind as you step away from LVR their will be less velocity experienced. Hodgdon is one of two good options for Hornady load data. Are you looking at loading for a gas gun or bolt action? Hornady data links below for gas gun pressures & bolt gun pressures. Yet their are more propellant options than included in this data.

Yet most of the propellants available to us are addressed in the sources touched on here. So many bullet options out there, you are not going to find published data for all projectiles out there. We are left to extrapolate to one degree or another if we wish to work with alternate projectiles.


 
That lil cartridge loves just about anything
for your weight listed ...simple Win 760 .....works superb ..fast

for lighter 87 Gr Vmax AA2230 Fast and accurate ...meters like butter
 
champ198 said:
I know a lot seem to use the Leveroloution powder but I hear it is pretty dirty.
What are some other powders you all have found to work well for the heavier bullets like the 103s etc.
Looking at maybe trying some CFE223
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I built a 6ARC gasser to run in PRS last year and played with it some and from my experience the Lever is garbage. Very inconsistent SDs, large ES and temperature fluctuations drastically. That said at 100yds it did shoot decent groups but at long range it's a train wreck as well as being dirty. LR is the very last powder I would consider. In fact, I wouldn't consider any ball powder. LR, BLC2, CFE223, W760 will all meter like water in a cheap powder throw and shoot decent groups at 100yd but if you really want the most from a heavy high BC bullet, look at an extruded powder. They will be a little slower in velocity but you gain so much more in consistency.

What I found that does work well and is Varget, 8208XBR and probably the best is H4895. I didn’t push these hard because Grendel bolts are a known weakness but I got great groups that had great SDs that was temperature stabile, I'd start with any of these.
 
I would much prefer to have consistent and accurate over faster.
Can see the ohh ahh from the faster stuff. But if it isn't accurate what's the point of missing fast
I have some Varget and H4895 already so ill give those a try also.
 
Expect you may be very satisfied with both of those propellants in terms of accuracy. I have dabbled w H4895 with good results, Varget - I have not yet, experimented with.
 
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