Staball HD Substitute for Reloder 26

[41rem]

What does the crowd think? Numbers seen to match up in the few cartridge's I've checked.


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[TEXASforLIFE]

I never trying 26, do have some HD and match along the 6.5 to try when I get around to it

 

[highoctane]

Ive never tried any of the Winchester variants. I've read that HD is slightly faster than 26. Not sure what you are wanting to substitute it in but I really don't see why HD would not work.

Of course HD is a double base powder and RL26 is an extruded stick powder, and has different burn characteristics, charge weights will be different. Find a starting load and work from there. Use a chronograph as well. Don't just go on case appearance. Good luck

 

[TEXASforLIFE]

Ive never tried any of the Winchester variants. I've read that HD is slightly faster than 26. Not sure what you are wanting to substitute it in but I really don't see why HD would not work.

Of course HD is a double base powder and RL26 is an extruded stick powder, and has different burn characteristics, charge weights will be different. Find a starting load and work from there. Use a chronograph as well. Don't just go on case appearance. Good luck

Hodgdon has data for many cartridges in the HD powder.

 

[Backcast88]

I tried StaBall HD in 6.5PRC. The only way to describe it was, terrible.

ES and SD were way to high. Velocity was never close to any published data. Got okay accuracy with 140 ELD-M but all other bullets did not produce acceptable results.

H4831sc and N565 were much better options in my rifle. N565 was what I settled on. It produced the best combination of speed/accuracy/ES/SD. 4831sc was a give and take. I got accuracy/ES/SD but slow speed. Or I got the speed and accuracy suffered. I didn't have that problem with N565 so I bought several lbs and stayed with it

StaBall HD became fouler loads to warm up the barrel and nothing more.

 

[pharmseller]

I tried StaBall HD in 6.5PRC. The only way to describe it was, terrible.

ES and SD were way to high. Velocity was never close to any published data. Got okay accuracy with 140 ELD-M but all other bullets did not produce acceptable results.

H4831sc and N565 were much better options in my rifle. N565 was what I settled on. It produced the best combination of speed/accuracy/ES/SD. 4831sc was a give and take. I got accuracy/ES/SD but slow speed. Or I got the speed and accuracy suffered. I didn't have that problem with N565 so I bought several lbs and stayed with it

StaBall HD became fouler loads to warm up the barrel and nothing more.

Dang, I just tried HD in a friend’s 6.5 PRC with 156 EOL. Only 3 shots over the chrono but I got 2809 average from the 20” barrel (cut for a can), SD 7, ES 14. Four shot group at the range was 0.32”.




Worked pretty well.

 

[SJB358]

I have used SBHD a bit in my 300 RUM. Worked about the same as Retumbo for me. Not a lot of time with it though. It is a touched hotter on the charts than 26. Ramshot Grand is very similar to 26 in the few things I’ve tried.

 

[FOTIS]

RS Magnum, or RS Grand might get you there.

 

[Ridge_Runner]

Ive never tried any of the Winchester variants. I've read that HD is slightly faster than 26. Not sure what you are wanting to substitute it in but I really don't see why HD would not work.

Of course HD is a double base powder and RL26 is an extruded stick powder, and has different burn characteristics, charge weights will be different. Find a starting load and work from there. Use a chronograph as well. Don't just go on case appearance. Good luck

alliant powders are double based also, though it is in stick form.