Re: RL15 to Varget
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: shumate</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I was an RL-15 fan, made the switch to Varget. Until I went to pick up another 8 pounder. The IMR rep was in there. And well he threw his pitch to me about the 8208 XBR. Of course I was like, yeah, yeah. Pushing your stuff onto me. So he gave me a free pound. So I held off on the Varget.
Loaded up some of my 308, 223, and 6x45 with it. Thinking hell, it was free lets give it a shot. To my surprise, WOW. I really liked this stuff. And ended up getting the 8 pounder of 8208. So I loaded some 6.5 grendel with it. Nothing but good with it. It covers so much of my loads, I am so hooked on this stuff. On the web site it states that it is not sensitive to temp.
So you might want to take a look at IMR 8208 XBR, it is now my do all powder. </div></div>
As was stated it's best for the lighter bullets in .308 it has a larger temp stability range than Varget, but suffers the same lot to lot variation of late. When you pick up your next jug of XBR 8208 be sure to drop your charge weight down a little bit and work back up.