IMR4166 suitable varget substitute?

[briang7511]

With the varget shortage and having many mouths to feed i am finding the need to look elsewhere. Anyone that has substituted varget for imr4166 in 6GT, 6.5x47, 308, 223, 224 Valkyrie and 22-250 i am interested in your experience?

 

[missed]

I wouldn't call it as good as VARGET. It's acceptable. I used it in 308, speed change with temperature is more than VARGET, I am getting good accuracy from it. I want to load up some 6.5x47 and 6x47 with it.

 

[DocRDS]

Powder Temp Stability: Hodgdon Extreme vs. IMR Enduron

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I've heard (heard--as in don't trust this) people refer to both 4166 and N140 as 'Varget Substitute'

Test shows that Temp Sensitivity is close--however, there is some secret sauce that Varget is used everywhere. I don't get it, cause even before the 'crisis' I couldn't find varget, Whether its hype or real or a combo, its the thing to buy.

Also fuck Varget--I'll find Bigfoot, aliens, and the CIA tapes on the JFK assassination before I find that crap. (And mind you I did find other unobtanium during this panic like H4350, H1000, primers, etc)


My 308 Goto is IMR4064, 6.5 is H4350 or IMR4451.

 

[LR1845]

shooters world precision is the closest thing to varget as far as accuracy goes but like varget good luck finding any.

 

[Shoots 700's]

Ive had good luck with 4166 in 6 dasher. N140 has also shown a-lot of promise and very accurate

 

[LR1845]

Ive had good luck with 4166 in 6 dasher. N140 has also shown a-lot of promise and very accurate

does the 4166 seem pretty temp stable?

 

[briang7511]

great feed back so far. if anyone has any comparison load data to share please show both your load with varget and 4166. brass bullet and primer to please.

 

[Shoots 700's]

Powder Temp Stability: Hodgdon Extreme vs. IMR Enduron

The goal of this field test was to quantify the temperature stability of the popular Hodgdon H4350 a...

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[Shoots 700's]

It has been stable enough for me not to worry about finding Varget. Why bother limiting yourself to one powder. You might be looking quite sometim.

 

[John Glidewell]

running N150 in my 6GT and it is doing great, it seems to sit right between varget and 4350.