BL-C2 is it great or what?

Bloodhound

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I don't see alot of re-loaders using BL-C2...I use the Hodgdon manul (I have 5 or 6 other manuls too) and there are loads for my 30-30, 32WS, .308 .243 all using BL-C2 and its a ball powder, so it meters well, and well its cheap to buy, and use...in the .308 I use a mag primer, but all others get a standard primer...Am I alone, or are there others who have found the joy of BL-C2?
 
Just my opinion but I like Varget and Benchmark for smaller cartridges and H-4350 and H-4831SC for the bigger boomers.
I buy Varget and H4350 in 8 lb. kegs.

BL-C2 always seemed a little dirtier shooting, but again that is my opinion.

Later
Clayman
 
I use it in my .338-06 A-Square for 200gr and below bullet weights, it provides great velocity with less pressure than other H powders for 200gr and lighter bullets in this caliber.

Tim
 
Love it! It's my most accurate powder out of my Savage 12FV in .223 with 68gr., 69gr., and 75gr. bullets.
 
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Hey Bloodhound, Ive been using it in my 204 and 223 and just started with the 243. I know guy at the local gun shop(older guy) who does alot of South Dakota PD hunts and does alot of shooting in the off season. He says he uses it for almost every caliber he has. He just goes nuts when you mention Blc2. From his experience and the way he talks about it youd think it was a miracle powder. Maybe I should sniff some. LOL
Daryl P.
 
I get very favorable groups with BLC2 in both my 22-250 Sako and my 204 Remington both with BR4 CCI primers /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
 
I started reloading for an 8MM Mouser in 1966 with BL-C2 powder. I think the load was 45 grains under a 180 grain Seirra round nose bullit, and a CCI large rifle primer. With my old K-98, I could knock a flash light battery off a five gallon paint bucket all day long at 200 yards. I killed my first deer, bear, and antelope with that load.
I sold that gun years ago, but just picked up another one and I'll soon be reloading with BL-C2 again. It's great powder.
John
 
When I started reloading about 18 years or so ago. I started out loading my 308 with BLC2. It is a very good powder. I am a die hard benchmark man right now. .405" 100 yard groups in my 223. Benchmark shoots very clean, i have fired over 100 rounds in one day in the 223 and looked down the barrel and nothing. It took me a whole 5 patches of Hoppes #9 to get teh barrel clean.
 
The only thing I don't like about BL-C2 is the fact its a ball powder. Ball powders tend to be dirty and lose accuracy around or before the 100 rd mark unless you clean the barrels.
 
Since everyone likes BLC2maybe someone can give me a load for a 243 winchester. I loaded some with 40 gr of BLC2 and 58 gr vmax. Only five rounds and fired them today didnt ck accuracy really cause I just shot at a mark on a tree.From looking through scope it looked like all the shots were in the same spot. Only shooting about 50 yards though.There no load in my manual for the 243 and 58 gr vmax but there is a load for a 60 gr SP bullet. The max for the 60 gr is 41.5 gr of BLC2.By going down in bullet weight from 60 to 58 I should be able to use more powder but I kept it at 40gr. Im not familiar with signs of excessive pressures but the bullets shot good and ejected fine and showed no stress marks that I clould see.How would I determine the max for this bullet and powder?
Thanks Daryl P.
 
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I use BLC2 for reloading my .204 Ruger and my 6 MM Remington. My Dillon RL-550B loves it cause it is a ball powder and flows like s--- through a tin horn!
 
I think a BR-4 would fall out of most 22-250 cases, how about a BR-2 for that one?
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I use BL-C2 in my .223 and H335 also, it meters great and while it may be a little bit dirty I do not shoot like alot of PS's, do just fox so my rifles stay in the truck all the time so I clean them every month or so, rounds fired really do not come into play.
 
I am lovin' this...lots of BL-C2 users...I bought a couple of 8 LB kegs when a gunshop closed its doors...$75...I thought that was a deal.
 
It tried using it in my 204 but it is to temperature sensitive. I had 9/16" groups when it was cool and it opened up to 3" when it got warm. I need it to shoot good year round with the same load so I went to IMR 4895.
 
I think I started using BL-C2 way back in the early 80's somewhere. Mainly in the .22-250. It's excellent powder, no doubt about it.
As previously mentioned though, it's a ball powder that's harder to ignite, it's dirty burning stuff, and it is temperature sensitive. All that being as it may, I still use it in several rounds.
I always have a can of it on hand, and it works very well besides all the other issues. It meters like water. I use H414, H380, and H335 as well. They suffer from similar maladies.
Nowadays, with newer powders available which don't have the issues previously mentioned, I still use it from time to time anyway. Just not as much.

Steve...

What did you mean by losing accuracy "at or around the 100yd. mark" ?
Maybe I misunderstood you but once the bullet is in flight, and unless it's acted upon by another force (wind, twig or grass, etc.) it's pretty much gonna stay on track.
That's also providing that it's well stabilized by the rifling. All else being equal, accuracy at 50yds., correlates to accuracy at 100, 200 & on out. Technically, in a perfect world (no crosswinds), 1" at 100yds. equates to 2" at 200, etc. With shooter error, this is always an issue/problem, but again, unless I misunderstood you, once in flight it should be pretty much a standard figure on out.
At the bench right now I'm working on another load in my .22-250 that's shooting at aprox. .300" for five rounds. On a calm evening, and if I can keep the shooter error at bay, it'll shoot 5/8-3/4" at 200yds. Which pretty much figures accordingly.

Just wondering ?

Take care,
Bob
 


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