Powder for multiple cals

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New to reloading.I have all the equipment and am ready to buy some powder.I will be reloading for .204,.223wssm,.308,.300wm,and .300 wby mag.Is there a powder that can be used for most or all of these cals?
 
From Hodgdon's website.

H414 - This spherical powder has an extremely wide range of use. From the 22-250 Remington to the 375 H & H, it will give excellent results. It is simply ideal in the 30/06. As with all of our spherical powders, it delivers incredibly consistent charge weights through nearly any type of powder measure. H414 yields similar results to H4350 in most cartridges, although charge weights will vary. Available in 1 lb. & 8 lb. containers.
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H4895 - This is a most versatile rifle powder. This member of the Extreme Extruded line powder is great for 17 Remington, 250-3000 Savage, 308 Winchester and 458 Winchester, to name just a few. It is amazingly accurate in every cartridge where it is listed in our data. It had its origin in the 30-06 as a military powder and was the first powder Bruce Hodgdon sold to the loading public. Available in 1 lb. & 8 lb. containers.
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Varget - The first of Hodgdon's revolutionary Extreme Extruded Powders, VARGET features small extruded grains for uniform metering, insensitivity to hot/cold temperatures and higher energy for improved velocities over other powders in its burning speed class. Easy ignition and clean burning characterize other features that translate into superb accuracy, higher scores and more clean, one shot kills. The perfect powder for competitive Match shooting 223 Remington and Heavy bullets. Outstanding performance and velocity can be obtained in such popular cartridges as the 223 Remington, 22-250 Remington, 308 Winchester, 30-06, 375 H&H and many more. Available in 1 lb. & 8 lb. containers.
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Dan, as usual, has it exactly right.
No use trying to compromise on types of powder, ending up with inefficient loads.
 
atomicsauace said:
New to reloading.I have all the equipment and am ready to buy some powder.I will be reloading for .204,.223wssm,.308,.300wm,and .300 wby mag.Is there a powder that can be used for most or all of these cals?
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Off the top of my head, no probably not one. If there was it would be a poor compromise. Again you should check but my guess, Varget will be near ideal for the small three, and H4831 will be near ideal for the 300 mags. H4831 might work too in the small mag.
 
Varget, either of the 4895's and IMR4064 will do for all 4. It is better to think in terms of one cartridge and one rifle at a time though.
 
I use mostly 2 powders imr 4895 and imr 7828 both are easy to get and work well in lots of cases.4895 works in about every 308 3006 based case.imr 7828 works in magnum type cases.
 
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I try and stay with one powder, I use bullseye for all my handgun loads.There is a posting with photos some place on this site of a messed up rifle resulting from a powder mix up.
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I use WC735 for everything. 7.26x39mm to .30-06. However, that would be the limit for me. I would not use it for any of the full size magnum cases. I would have to agree that there is no suitable single powder for the range you have indicated.
 
If you had to pick one and as mentioned that's not going to be ideal then I guess the compromise would be something like IMR-4064 and then again you would be shooting the lighter bullets in your 300's (works fairly well for 150's)
 
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