Thread: 270 powder

I always assume potential shooting out to 400 yds when I take my 270W hunting. I developed handloads to give me dependable drop and accuracy from 300 to 400 yds. Mostly I'm shooting 130 gn Hornady bullets ( mostly Interbond but some SST ). AR2213sc gave me both the velocities and consistency to allow confident shooting on game ( mostly goats and some deer ) at such distances.
Have also found RL17 very good but as you say current unavailability doesn't help you. At least Ar2213sc has remained in quite good supply.

Originally Posted by grandpamac

Greetings,
As the .270 will have limited use AR2208 could be an option as it can be used in both your .270 and .223. People forget that IMR4064 was the go to powder for the .270 from 1925 to 1940 when IMR4350 appeared. AR2208 is close to IMR4064 in speed. Also if we mean AR2213SC we should not shorten it to AR2213. AR2213 was an earlier, faster and now obsolete powder. The same goes for AR2206 and AR2206H.
Regards Grandpamac.

Way back, when AR2213 was changed to AR2213sc, I did some comparative testing of my own 243W and 270W loads using both powder variants and exactly the same charges. Found absoloutely no difference. But the advatage with the sc, as noted, was far easier metering through my powder thrower. To this day though I still individually check weigh every single charge. But I do like the sc. Good stuff.

I know it's slow but didn't someone here yonksnago say H1000 worked OK as well?

Originally Posted by csmiffy

I know it's slow but didn't someone here yonksnago say H1000 worked OK as well?

IIRC I tried some quite a while ago, probably with 130 gn bullets. Pretty sure compared to AR2213sc there was a lot of velocity loss.
Maybe a better bet with heavier bullets like 140 and 150 gn ?

Originally Posted by 30.06king

IIRC I tried some quite a while ago, probably with 130 gn bullets. Pretty sure compared to AR2213sc there was a lot of velocity loss.
Maybe a better bet with heavier bullets like 140 and 150 gn ?

Most likely

H1000=ADI2217

Norma MRP and Nosler 150 LRAB absolutely awesome

came across this tonight and thought of this thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07Kw4GVuihU