Viht N-160 Share Experience Please

[granite wagon]

Just using it for the first time and am initially VERY impressed!
Would like to hear others experience with it. Regardless of chambering.

It seems to work quite well in 6creed / burns very clean / seems not to be spikey when in top pressure charges & the recoil as compared directly to 4350 seems slower or more gentle . And I am pretty sure the muzzle report is less snappy as well.

Thanks
Granite

 

[Dogtown]

I use it for 6mm Creed in a 16" AR10. It doesn't generate velocities as high as H4350 but also doesn't heat up the barrel anywhere near as quickly. That's the thing with the N100-series vs the N-500 series: heat generation.

 

[Near miss]

Created an excellent load for my friend's Tikka 6.5CM. During load development at 300m even different powder loads went under 1moa. It was laughable, I wondered how can I decide the charge when they all print the same?

I have never shot it at 100 but at 300 it does from 0.35 to 0.85, averaging .5moa. It does help my friend to get better at shooting aswell, the expectations for group size improved drastically. We are keeping a target log to create shot accountability and planning to strech out to 700m this weekend, paper and steel.

I agree it is an awesome powder.

@viking78 has also experimented with this.

 

[John Glidewell]

I run a lot of the VV powders. All of them shoot well. N160 is a bit slow for a short barrel / lighter bullet, N150 would probably deliver better velocities. I like N550 and N555 as well. I run N560, N565 and N570 in bigger magnums too, all excellent results.