Here is a question for you, plus it will help me.
Gary Reeder
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Thursday, March 12, 2026, 11:47 (4 days ago)
What is your favorite powder? I need Colleen to start searching for some of the more exotic powders, but I need some input from you guys.
I am using .Longshot , W231 ,BLC-2 some IMR 4831 , H4895
Sean Harper
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Thursday, March 12, 2026, 12:12 (4 days ago) @ Gary Reeder
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Here are our favorite powders and the ones we use
Gary Reeder
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Thursday, March 12, 2026, 12:24 (4 days ago) @ Gary Reeder
most of all. We haven't used a lot of powders in the last year. With me down health wise and with one eye I haven't been doing a lot of shooting, but these are the powders that I use most and the powders I try to always try to keep on hand.
Varget
296*
#9*
748
231*
Power Pistol
Blue Dot*$$
4064
#7*
4895
2400*$$
4227*$$
1680*
Rel.15*
3031
4350*
H110*
The ones with an asterisk * are powders I normally load at least once a week or so.
These are some of the powders (all the Alliant powders) that are extremely hard to get for some silly ass reason.$$
I’m with Sean, a note about Longshot…
WB
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Friday, March 13, 2026, 11:33 (3 days ago) @ Gary Reeder
It’s not only a fantastic magnum shotgun powder for goose or turkey loads, but superior for hot semi-auto pistols too. Great for straight wall pistol rounds. I even used it for some cast bullet shooting in a .25-35 Win. rifle! Think of it like a hotter version of unique or Blue Dot. It replaced my Blue Dot 10 ga. Load and upped velocity from 1200 to 1400 fps. Simply rules in 10mm auto or hot .45 ACP loads. But will work in smaller rounds too. Great stuff.
AA#7 is pretty good too. AA#9 is their replacement for H110/296.
Accurate 2495
rodentherder
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Thursday, March 12, 2026, 13:13 (4 days ago) @ Gary Reeder
Bought several pounds back when H4895 was unobtainable, decided I like it just as well if not better.
Longshot, W296, IMR700X, H4198,
Blake
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Friday, March 13, 2026, 15:25 (3 days ago) @ Gary Reeder
IMR4227, H322, H335, IMR4895, IMR4831, WC820, BL-C(2), CFE223,
Reloader22, Accurate 1680, Benchmark, IMR3031