Thread: .270 , 130 sst and 2209 0r 2209 or N160

ok , got that .
I have some 140 vlds that would probably get close to same as HNDY 140,s

Originally Posted by Dr. Death

I can give you some 2213sc if you want to try that out.

Youre a good guy DR death . I know what will happen , it will work great , best powder ever ! then i wont be able to get it ! So , i am gonna try and make do with the stuff i got . THanks for the offer

Originally Posted by grandpamac

Greetings,
IMR 4350. close to AR2209, was the go to powder for the .270 before the surplus 4831 appeared and IMR4064, close to AR2208, before that. O'Connor often used IMR4064 long after the other two appeared due to its accuracy in the .270.
GPM.

I had heard that about IMR4064 being a somewhere near the 2208 . Ironic i have 2208 and 2209 just when i need to have this discussion . thanks for the history lesson

Originally Posted by Dr. Death

I can give you some 2213sc if you want to try that out.

What the man said. Use 59gr. Be in the zone. 270 has a big boiler room. Otherwise use 110gr Barnes. Then you have whistling death.

2213sc worked well for me back in the day when I owned a 270 x57gr or thereabouts with 130grSSTs

Originally Posted by LJPRMC

Youre a good guy DR death . I know what will happen , it will work great , best powder ever ! then i wont be able to get it ! So , i am gonna try and make do with the stuff i got . THanks for the offer

Well if you change your mind, im local and usually keep a reasonable stock of it, it hasnt been too hard to get unlike CCI primers

Medium burning powders were only used in the .270 back in the day as they had a limited choice and no slower options. You can do better than 2208 I reckon.


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Originally Posted by grandpamac

Greetings,
IMR 4350. close to AR2209, was the go to powder for the .270 before the surplus 4831 appeared and IMR4064, close to AR2208, before that. O'Connor often used IMR4064 long after the other two appeared due to its accuracy in the .270.
GPM.

Yes, it's a close match. Just have a look in the ADI guide. There is a set of tables/chart showing "equivalents "

If you read the 270/4064 article he suggests that 4064 doesn't quite act the same in the 270.
He couldn't quite explain it, bit it seemed to act like the burn rate differed in the cade than what it should be.7

We use a truck load of N160 in the .270 and .25-06 years back gave bloody great speeds and accurate.
Lately I've used Hodgdon Superperformance with 145 eldx also works well

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Unless you dialling up n stretching the barrel,why chase velocity if load is accurate enough to do what you need it to do,leave it alone and just go shoot it.