Does anyone use just one powder for different calibers?

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look here you can find all the varget data you need
http://data.hodgdon.com/main_menu.asp


Thanks for the link Venatic! I printed out everything I'm re-loading right now. That sure helps! It's all starting to come together and make sense to me now. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif
I think that's real cool of Hodgdon, Winchester, and IMR to get together on this and publicly release all their re-loading data. I haven't been anywhere else that does that.
I've got another question for the group.
Does anybody know what brands of powder Hornady uses in their ammo? I'm sure they use several, but does anybody know where I can find info like that? I've been to Hornady's website and they don't make that information public knowledge.
 
The reason they are all together on one webpage is that Hodgdon distributes all of them. You will not be able to find out what Hornady uses they do not release that kind of info.
 
I load .223, .220 Swift, .260, .270, 7x57, .308, and 30-06. I could probably get by real well with just IMR 4350 and IMR 4064. You could change out the 4064 for varget, they are very similar in burn rate.
 
By printing out that re-loading data from data.hodgdon.com you can really compare powders (the big 3) side by side. I found that Varget is better for some cartridges, and not for others. In some cases, IMR4895 or IMR4350 or H4350 is better than Varget in the 130gr .270 but not in the 110gr. .270. In my .243 for all bullet weights, Varget is superior. In my .35, Varget is also superior. By superior I mean, not just velocity. I'm not one of those guys all hung up on speed. I can look at velocity, vs, pressure, vs, how much powder does it take to get it there? I'm not going to load any compressed cartridges. I just won't do it. I'm looking for nominal velocity ,(best possible speed with the least amount of CUP,least grains of powder) with superb acuracy. The acuracy is my biggest pet peeve! If I can't get a gun to shoot the kind of groups that I think it should, and I've exhausted all my options, that gun will be in the trash, or local pawn shop! If you haven't done so already, do yourself a favor, go to [ data.hodgdon.com ] and print out the charts for your calibers. It's an eye opener!
 
All I use is Vaget or IMR 4064. It seems like if one doesn't work the other one does. I reload for
.22-.250, two .243's, .308, and a .30-06.
BP
 


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