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Temperature Sensitivity of Alliant Reloder 26
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<blockquote data-quote="Engineering101" data-source="post: 1446893" data-attributes="member: 63138"><p>JE - you lumped RL16/23 with RL 26 but only the first two are temp stable per Alliant who imports them. RL 16 and RL 23 are manufactured by Bofors in Sweden using a process that yields great temp stability. RL 26 along with RL 33, RL 50 and RL 17 are made by Nitrochemie in Switzerland using a different process and they exhibit "moderate" sensitivity to temperature changes (0.5 fps/ degree F per Nitrochemie) but they are very high performance powders. I can live with the temp drift of RL-26 (which in my rifles seems to be more like 1 fps per degree F) given it will outperform everything else in many rifles with an ES approaching single digits but you do have to keep in mind that it will drift enough to knock your pet load off its node if the temp changes as little as 20 degrees or so from when you developed the load.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Engineering101, post: 1446893, member: 63138"] JE - you lumped RL16/23 with RL 26 but only the first two are temp stable per Alliant who imports them. RL 16 and RL 23 are manufactured by Bofors in Sweden using a process that yields great temp stability. RL 26 along with RL 33, RL 50 and RL 17 are made by Nitrochemie in Switzerland using a different process and they exhibit "moderate" sensitivity to temperature changes (0.5 fps/ degree F per Nitrochemie) but they are very high performance powders. I can live with the temp drift of RL-26 (which in my rifles seems to be more like 1 fps per degree F) given it will outperform everything else in many rifles with an ES approaching single digits but you do have to keep in mind that it will drift enough to knock your pet load off its node if the temp changes as little as 20 degrees or so from when you developed the load. [/QUOTE]
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