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Ramshot Grand

OkieMike

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Anybody gave this powder a whirl yet?

I picked up a pound of it and Win Staball HD today. Thought I might try them out in the Win Mag.

I don't have the Hodgdon '24 Annual Manual so I guess I'll try to extrapolate data for RS Grand from what Hodgdon has listed on their site.

Mike
 
Bumping this up.

Anyone have any experiences with Grand to share? Midway has it for $36 a pound. The temp stability claim is what has me hopeful that it will work well with 280ai sized and larger cases.
 
Bumping this up.

Anyone have any experiences with Grand to share? Midway has it for $36 a pound. The temp stability claim is what has me hopeful that it will work well with 280ai sized and larger cases.
I haven't tried it yet. Work has kept me so busy I haven't had any time to work up anything with it.

Mike
 
Did a comparison of H1000 and Grand for my CA Mesa LR 300 PRC, 26 inch barrel, 1:8 twist
virgin Lapua brass, Federal Match 215M primers, 203 grain Hammer HHT. 5 rounds each load. Powder was measured with digital Lyman scale. If amount was off by +/- 0.1 grain it was dumped.

H1000 had noticeably less powder residue in the barrel after shooting 25 rounds. Grand had less residue than Hornady ammo.
H1000 and Grand are very close in fps.

Grains/avg fps/SD/Spread
Grand
74/2873.9/13.6/39.1
74.5/2915.2/5.4/14.5
75/2939.5/8.3/24.4
75.5/2959.6/6.4/15.4
76/2957.9/16.2/47.6

H1000
74/2892.3/12.4/37.4
74.5/2926.6/20.1/57
75/2939.0/5.8/15.3
75.5/2968.7/20.7/65.3
76/2965.1/18/50.3