Been using it for a long time.
Yes, I don't remember the exact year the formulation changed, but it was somewhere between 2014 to 2016 or so.
Good to hear. I think I'll grab a pound and try it. My concern with temp stability is colder conditions. From my reading, high temps can cause pressure issues. I haven't read anything about colder temps thoigh, which is my main concern being in upstate NY. I do alot of shooting in 20-45 degree weather. The summers here seem to get shorter and shorter.
Easy to test....put X amount of rounds in a sandwich bag in the freezer over night...put them in a cooler with an ice pack and go to your spot or range and shoot them over the Chrony...also let a X amount of rounds sit in ambient and throw X amount on your defroster vent of your car with the heater cranked up and shoot all over the chrony...you can check ammo temp with a cheap heat gun.
I've had the same results with a 6 Dasher. Varget loads and n150 were nearly identical in speeds and charge weights.
Does it? I need to find a powder that meters well through a Dillion while being stable and has good ES/SD for precision .223 loads I dont want to waste time using Supertrickler on.
When load developing in cold weather for cold weather hunting/shooting, I let the ammo match ambient temp for an hour before shooting. Keep the ammo in the bed of the truck on the way to the range.
For 300 WM in Pete Long brass, N570 and N170 produce some great velocities and SD with Berger 215s. I reduce the N170 charge 1 grain from the N570 charge for same velocity. N570 with those tic-tac like kernels though. Worst metering and flow through ever!
I am not a hunter but do a lot of shooting....temp swings from morning to mid day can be 30-40degs which will cause issues with some of the powders I use to use when things were hard to get and is what made me start temp testing powders...every powder I've done this with has velocity swings just some worse than others.
Nobody has said to use the Sun as a heat source. Hot air and body heat all that's been mentioned. However, yes. Absolutely do not heat ammo by direct sunlight.
That’s what I was worried about. What speeds were you seeing? I ran into this issue when I was trying to load for my Win mag. I have several pounds of powder that only have 10 rounds of it used until the guy at the reloading store recommended 4831sc.
I use my defroster and have never had an issue...I could see if someone was running a stupid hot load to began with...but then the samething would happen if someone was running a hot load and went to a match in 100+deg weather.
I got a chuckle out of cold being 20 to 45 F.......
Let me rephrase. I wont shoot in temps colder than 20, unless my brother drags me out to shoot coyotes.
What kind of loads are you using of the N150 for 223? I've got some and never thought about using it in my 223AI.
Even with the 9% increase it's still like $70-90 cheaper than varget, depending on where you get it. But thanks for the heads up. I'll make my purchases soon!
The Double Alpha .223 powder funnel/insert for Dillon powder measures is mirror-polished inside and helps more than I thought possible for progressive-loading stick powder:
So you're saying N150 is closer to Varget than N140? Just asking because Varget shot well in my 223, 6.5Grendel, 6 BR and I wanted to try it for my 22ARC
