- Location
- Western Manitoba
To the op the beauty of reloading is that you get to try lots of variables to find what works best for your rig.
Varget and benchmark. Have been the best for my 55gr .223 range rounds. Top marks go to benchmark
Agreed - it is the "beauty" of reloading - is also the "curse" of it. Hornady 9th manual shows 20 different powders with pressure tested results for that one bullet weight. Only so many hours in a day - so many days in a week - so many weeks in a year. Next thing I know, a couple years have gone by and I still have not figured out a "best load" - let alone two or three alternates. Might have been easier when I had one or two cartridges - is more difficult with 20 or more cartridges and 4 or 5 rifles for some of them. Why my OP was looking at what examples of powder people had tried and rejected - was hoping to thin down the choices. For the record, my current loading is with Benchmark powder - the grandson and our son seem to think that is working out just fine - however, I am now down to my last bottle of it, and was hoping to find an alternate...