60 Gr. VMAX Powder Help

[jfields]

I am planning to load 2000 60 Gr. VMAX here pretty soon and would like some opinions on powder. I will be loading on a single stage press and will be throwing the powder charges with my Redding Competition powder measure.

Can anyone recommend a good powder for the VMAX. I have good bit of Varget and RE15, but they both meter like crap. I'd like to get a powder that meters more like H110. It sure seems to be more consistent in my powder measure.

Any ideas?

Thanks in Advance!

-J

 

[Beluebow]

CFE223 works well for me.Other than a little dirty in my rifle.

 

[CMH]

I know you don't like the metering, but my AR loves RL-15 with 60 grain Nosler BT's.

 

[rnd00]

Ram Shot Tac if you can find any

 

[fireEMT5]

Hodgdon H335 works great for me. The problem is finding any right now. It meters well too.

 

[insight3b]

AA-2230 has proven outstanding for me

 

[rduckwor]

H335 works well on my bench.

 

[jfields]

Thanks for the help, Guys.

-J

 

[cacoltguy]

I bought a bunch of Vihtavuori 135 a while back because it was readily in stock when I couldn't find any RL-15. I'm glad I did because this stuff shoots great in my AR's (on par with the RL-15) and now I have another alternative in times of scarcity. It meters about the same as the RL-15 however. I've used it with 60 gr. V-Maxes, 60 gr. Hornady flat base-HP, and a bunch of 62 grain lead and steel core bulk bullets.

 

[rweaver00geo]

24.5 grains of benchmark, meters ok, worked with the 60gr sierra hp, I toyed around with tac it worked too

 

[glock63]

Another vote for tac. I have driven the 60 grain vmax to 3200 FPS out of an 18 inch tube using it, with sub moa accuracy.

 

[Creature]

24.5 grains of benchmark, meters ok, worked with the 60gr sierra hp, I toyed around with tac it worked too

Bingo. I've been using Benchmark for years and it works great.

 

[drglock]

+1 on the Benchmark, my AR loves the 60gr BT's and Benchmark

 

[jfields]

I have not used Benchmark how does it meter?

-J

 

[Creature]

The granules are about half the size of Varget. They meter pretty well for me.

 

[Rprecision]

H4895 worked well for me. I would have to look but if I recall somewhere around 23 Grains

 

[JSTARSZ]

AA2460 at 25 grains works great out of the 16" AR's. All I shoot is 60gr VMAX loads out of my carbines.

 

[rg1911]

Another vote for H335.

Richard

 

[Ghogs Nightmare]

Varget can be a pain to meter but 26.2 of it w the 60gr works well for me....

 

[elfster1234]

60gr Vmax is my most fav .224 bullet. I use 23.8 varget @ 2900fps & 60grn vmax's all of the time with my rock river arms 18" bull barrel varmint rifle & DPMS 3G1. so much that I purchased 1500 60gr vmax bullets... best bang for your buck .224 bullet IMO (works well in my 1:9 and especially in my 1:8 twist barrel).. I've tried benchmark before and although it is pretty good in terms of accuracy & especially the way it meters on my chargemaster,,,, I keep going back to varget for accuracy even when it meters like shit..... for me, varget is just an all around bad ass powder for both .223 and .308 AR's

I am planning to load 2000 60 Gr. VMAX here pretty soon and would like some opinions on powder. I will be loading on a single stage press and will be throwing the powder charges with my Redding Competition powder measure.

Can anyone recommend a good powder for the VMAX. I have good bit of Varget and RE15, but they both meter like crap. I'd like to get a powder that meters more like H110. It sure seems to be more consistent in my powder measure.

Any ideas?

Thanks in Advance!

-J

 

[insight3b]

AA 2230 is a ball powder that meters like H110. I set my powder measure to throw 23.8gr and I check every tenth round and from the 1st round to the thousandth round each charge weighs 23.8 without having to measure each charge

 

[unclefreedom]

I have had tremendous success with Benchmark and BL-(C)2 you could also run CFE 223 which is just BLC2 with Bismuth added to reduce Copper Fouling. IMR 3031 is also stellar and had a great velocity in the mid range powder load hope this helped OP

 

[Gee Kay]

i use adi benchmark 2 here in australia (happens to be equivalent to hodgen benchmak). i use 24.4gr for my tikka varmint 223. when doing the ladder test i found that the 24.4gr shot hole in hole. forgot to mention i am getting about 3100fps with those loads.

equivalent table from adi, and apparently hodgen is adi powder in the us form what i gather reading adi's webpage.

 

[unclefreedom]

Benchmark has really surprised me even with heavy weight pills like the 75gr BTHP good velocity 2670 fps and a .43 group at 100 using 22.2 grs Benchmark

 

[black5.3]

Hopefully OP got it figured out since the post died on July 14, 2013...... nonetheless, carry on.

 

[Gee Kay]

daaaaaaaaaaaaamn, i always forget to check dates

 

[BiggBeans]

what powder did you go with Jfields

 

[Steel head]

what powder did you go with Jfields

Yea we all want to know!!!

 

[ghostrider272]

AA2230 works pretty good. Tough to find at the moment.