New powders looking promising!
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Yes it does.
Last Sunday Chris Hodgdon talked about the new Staball powders on Gun Talk Radio. Available as a podcast.
Hope to see more data than was in the annual manual.
SuperBruce
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Hodgdonreloading.com has the data up now. I had high hopes for the Staball Match breathing a bit more horsepower into my 18" 308 Win but it looks like Varget gets just as good or better performance until you get to the 190+gr projectiles.
My unreasonable expectations aside, if it's reasonably temp stable it'll be great to have a Varget substitute that can be thrown accurately.
My unreasonable expectations aside, if it's reasonably temp stable it'll be great to have a Varget substitute that can be thrown accurately.
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Bghunter338
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The 1 lbers are out.
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Winchester StaBALL HD
Winchester® StaBALL™ HD is a temperature-insensitive, double-base, BALL® Powder, stable in extreme-hot or -cold conditions. This slow-burning magnum powder provides optimal loading density in large capacity magnum cartridges appropriate for the burn speed, which is ideal for 6.5 PRC, 7MM...
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Fotis
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For $45/lb they can keep them. It will be a while for me I guess. Look forward to reading some reviews.The 1 lbers are out.
Winchester StaBALL HD
Winchester® StaBALL™ HD is a temperature-insensitive, double-base, BALL® Powder, stable in extreme-hot or -cold conditions. This slow-burning magnum powder provides optimal loading density in large capacity magnum cartridges appropriate for the burn speed, which is ideal for 6.5 PRC, 7MM...
Bghunter338
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Right, I got excited and put two in my cart. Figured 2 would be good to try and see what it's all about, until I saw that they wanted $55 for shipping. No thank you I'll wait till it hits the selfs for that price.
Thanks for sharing. I have the previous version (Nov 2019) and learned that Alliant Power Pro 4000 MR is supposed to be between RL-19 and RL-22 per Alliant, but it seems that it was not reflected on this version.
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Mooseknuckles
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I ordered some to try out. I need to eventually find a replacement powder for my 338 lapua since Hodgdon discontinued imr8133. I was pretty disappointed when I herd that.
If the Win staball hd doesn't work out i guess it's on to n570.
If the Win staball hd doesn't work out i guess it's on to n570.
jeremy.b
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Midsouth has Match (HD is OOS) and Powdervalley has both in stock. Anyone getting a chance to get testing done?
