With small, easy metering granules, competitors will love how it flows through progressive presse.ĭo not exceed the loads displayed in the reloaders guide. Additionally, it performs superbly in the 204 Ruger and with light match bullets in 308 Winchester. As such, it is ideally suited for benchrest and small varmint cartridges like the 6mm PPC, 22 PPC, 6mm BR, 223 Rem. Hodgdon Benchmark Powder, as the name implies, this Extreme Extruded propellant was developed for precision cartridges. I'm hopeful.Hodgdon Benchmark Powder offers the largest selection of quality smokeless propellants for any reloading application. My hope is to get a middle-of the range load of Benchmark that will give me the same point of impact as my IMR-4198 loads. Later editions reduced maximum load so that load is now above maximum, but I have no intention of disassembling the 800 or so rounds (out of an original 2,000) that I still have since the first 1,200 worked fine. At the time, it was a less than maximum load per Hornady Handbook, Volume 4. 223 load I worked up was 20.3 grains of IMR-4198 under a 60 grain Hornady bullet. Mostly what I will be trying to achieve is interchangability with my existing loads so that I don't have to adjust my sights when I switch to rounds loaded with a different powder. Where I shoot, I rarely have more than 100 yards open and the longest open area I have is just over 200 yards, so for me "accuracy" is getting at least 9 out of 10 rounds in the circular divot on the side of a plastic milk jug.
#Benchmark powder manuals
But loads on the low end tend to shoot good enough for blasting ammo.Ĭlick to expand.I've always consulted my various manuals to find a "concensus" starting load and then for rifle loads, I'll go up 0.2 grains at a time.
In all of the rifle/bullet/Benchmark combos that I've tried, I just about always find the most accurate load somewhere just above the middle of load range for listed data. If it's just "blasting ammo" I use CFE-223 because it's accurate enough and I have quite a bit of it.īut with Benchmark just start at the bottom like usual and work up.
If I can give up a little bit of accuracy and want more velocity with heavier bullets, I go back to Varget. 223 when I want accuracy above all else, when using 40-60gr bullets. Then I stumbled upon Benchmark a couple years ago. Anyways, I kept looking for a powder that I liked just as much but that metered more consistently and never jammed my powder measure. But it's been pretty forgiving for me as long as it stays within 0.3gr of the target charge. I loved it other than it's not always so friendly in the "throws consistently" department. When I started reloading 5 or 6 years ago Varget was the first powder I used for. Thanks in advance for anything you can share. problems with how it meters, particularly clean or dirty, etc.)? So for those that have used it, is there anything out of the ordinary that I need to be aware of with it (i.e. 223 Remington load in 20+ years and I have no experience with Benchmark. And while Gander Mountain seemed to have raised their prices on everything, their powder prices didn't change and with the 15% or 20% off coupons they send every other week, it is comparatively cheap. The local Gander Mountain, however, is well stocked with Hodgdon's Benchmark. Powder supplies have become more plentiful recently, but locally my three go-to powders remain scarce. In time, I was able to get performance out of all three so rounds loaded with them could be interchanged and the point of impact would remain the same (within my limits to shoot consistently). I was shooting a Mini-14 with an 18 inch barrel at the time and so ended up settling on a 60 grain Soft or Hollow point bullet over either IMR-4198, IMR-3031 or WW748. 223 Remington, I worked up loads using the powders that were available to me at the time.
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