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What is Hodgdon H322 used for?

What is Hodgdon H322 used for?

Hodgdon H322 powder has won more bench rest matches than all other propellants combined. It provides match-grade accuracy in small and medium capacity cartridges like the 223 Remington, 6mm PPC and the 7mm TCU.

Is Hodgdon H322 a ball powder?

H322 is a short cut extruded powder and H335 is a ball powder, so many people think that H335 meters more accurately. For my test, I dropped loads from my powder measure and both powders metered very well dropping loads that were within 1/10 grain of powder.

What type of powder is H335?

Hodgdon H335 Smokeless Powder is a flattened ball type powder that meters very well. Originally, Hodgdon H335 Smokeless Powder was used to load the military’s 5.56 NATO ammo, but now it is very popular for the .

What is H110 powder good for?

Silhouette shooters claim it is the most accurate 44 powder they have ever used. In addition, H110 is “the” choice for 410-bore shotgun, especially among top competitive skeet and sporting clays shooters. It handles all 2-1/2-inch, ½-oz. loads, as well as all 11/16-oz.

What powder does Hornady use in superformance?

Hornady uses commercial-grade Superformance powders of varying burn rates and also blends powders to offer a full line of Superformance cartridges.

Who makes BL c2 powder?

Hodgdon Powder offers the largest selection of quality smokeless propellants for any reloading application. Hodgdon BL-C(2) is a spherical powder that began as a military powder used in the 7.62 NATO, commonly known as the 308 Winchester.

What type of powder is Varget?

Hodgdon Varget Smokeless Gun Powder is an extruded propellant in the Hodgdon line of Extreme series of powders. Varget features small, extruded grains for uniform metering, is insensitive to hot and cold temperatures and produces higher energy for improved velocities over other powders in its burning-speed class.

What type of powder is IMR 4350?

IMR 4350 is a medium- to slow-burn rate propellant and is the number one choice for the new short magnums, both Remington and Winchester versions. For magnums with light- to medium-bullet weights, IMR 4350 is the best choice.

Is superformance a ball powder?

Superformance was black in color, roughly spherical in shape and fine-grained, looking like any other number of ball powders, nothing special in its appearance.

Is Hodgdon a superformance powder?

Hodgdon Powder offers the largest selection of quality smokeless propellants for any reloading application. Now you can load your ammunition with the same powder that Hornady uses in their factory ammunition. Superformance powder is a smooth metering spherical powder that flows freely through a powder measure.

Which is better h-322 or h-335?

FYSA, H-322 isn’t a ball powder, it’s cylindrical. That being said, I’ve only ever used it for light bullets in the .223 and .20 tactical. I’d concur that 8208 is probably the better route to go for heavies in .223. H-335 BL-C (2) or WW 748 all work good.

Can you use H322 powder with heavy 223?

H322 is a pretty fast burning powder, but it works very well for both 69 and 75/77gr pills. Try at or very near max Hodgdon charges and you should be pleasantly surprised. As always, YMMV. Well, others here & on other websites sing the praises of IMR8208xbr with heavier 223 bullets.

What kind of bullet to use with H322?

IMR 8208 XBR. It is marketed under the IMR brand, but it is a Extreme powder manufactured by ADI in Australia , same as the other Hodgdon Extreme powders. Works great with the 75-77 weight bullets. It has short kernels and meters easily. Lost in Idaho… Well, ladder test done..

What kind of FPS does a H322 get?

8208 works good small kernels and is temp stable. 23.2 grains gave me 2680 fps out of an 18″ barrel and single digit sd. I worked up to 23.6 and probably could have went a little more.