Thread: Powder

with 2206h i started at 23.5 and settled on 25.2 slightly compressed load but accurate!

Yeah I did a bit of shooting today with my first loads one at 23.5 one at 24.5 and one at 25.2. And 25.2 won by a long shot..

When guys talk about "2206" these days, many of them actually mean the current 2206H which is slightly slower burning. 2206 hasn't been available for a while far as I know.
Be careful you check what you're actually getting.

I'm finishing off the last of my old 2206 in one of my .223s. I then have the choice of a big batch of 747 or 5lbs of N201 I was given.

If you are looking at Americans load data, be sure to look at the ADI powder equivalent chart on the ADI website. You may find that the ADI equivalent of Hodgon or IMR is a heck of a lot easier to find in NZ.

Most folk appear to go for ADI Benchmark 2 as their starting powder for 223, this is the same as Hodgons Benchmark. ADI Benchmark 1 is not the same.
Id either try ADI Benchmark 2 or seeings as you are shooting slightly heavier projectiles, 2208 which is the same as Varget.

Yeah cheers, I've settled on 24.2gr of adi 2206. I'm sure it's not the 2206h version. But it's very accurate and I'll probably go to bm2

barrel twist rate will also have an affect on what results you get and what gr projectile you will get good results from
in my 223 is 1 in12 twist and i started with the same projectiles and and adi 2206h powder and i didn,t get the results i was after so ended up using sierra 55gr game kings and BM2 powder gives consistent tight groups at around 3000 fps. sierra projectiles are not so dear to buy terminal performance is not far behind the nosler partitions