rifle powder.........

[snooker]

Can Hodgdon H414 and Winchester 760 be used interchangeably?
(same powder?)
thanks.......

 

[Dogleg]

Hodgdon says that they are one and the same. Any variation would be the difference from lot to lot.

 

[K-C]

I agree with Dogleg, yes they are one and the same. Compare loads on the Hodgdon Reloading Data Center - they are always identical in every respect...

 

[burnt_servo]

yes ...... for all intents and purposes the stuff made in the last couple years is identical to each other .

the variance between h414 and w760 is no different the variance between one lot to the next lot of the same powder .



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Dogleg beat me to it

 

[snooker]

I agree with Dogleg, yes they are one and the same. Compare loads on the Hodgdon Reloading Data Center - they are always identical in every respect...

Thanks--------hodgdon site is where I found not just similarity---but identical data for the two powders. Seemed a little strange at first; hence my question.
Now back to the loading bench on a snowy blustery day!

 

[bearhunter]

I hope you saw the caveat. There will be a slight difference between what you were loading which I believe was W760 then managed to find some H414 or vice versa.

The load data should be safe but your impact points will likely be different. The difference will be about the same as using a pound of powder you bough a couple of years ago such as W760 and buying a new pound of W760 today. The results will be close but not identical.

Recently I came across half of an 8 pound keg of W760 as a gift. The fellow just wanted to get rid of it. I had close to a half keg of H414 already so just mixed them both together. I was lucky and all was well. In the 7x57 rifles and 257 Roberts I shoot this powder in the difference was 1cm high at a hundred meters. Windage was the same. Blending the two lots smoothed out the curves. Yes, this is a safe procedure with different lots of the same powder.

Have fun.