Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles Picked up a pound of RE-23

Will be working up a load for my 270win and 150 Hornady SST bullets, I see the reloader load data shows 57 grains max with the speer 150's. Hoping to hit an accuracy node around 2900 fps.22 inch bbl. My question is since this is a relatively new powder has anyone worked with this combination yet. My apologies if this has been covered already, I dont know the secret for searching on this site. Thanks all

Aceman.
I used it in my .260 and .300 Win Mag.
Didn't work too well with 130's. Velocity was low and mediocre accuracy. Couldn't get enough in the case.

The .300 worked well with 180 and 200 gr bullets. 1/2 pretty consistent with both. Velocity pretty typical of what I would expect for R22.

Lefty C

I bought two pounds the other day at Cabelas in Maine. Interestingly, the price was $5.00 less than RL22. Bing new, there isn't a whole lot of loading data out there yet.

RL23 is an even swap for RL22 load data. Same properties basically, one is temp sensitive & one is not.

For what it's worth.....Reloaded some 7 m/m Rem. rounds using 22 grains behind some Sierra and Hornady 175 gr. bullets....chronographed right at 2850 out of my LH Mod. 70 with a 26" barrel. Accuracy was very good with groups averaging right around an inch and a tad more with the Hornady Interlocks. By the time I broke out the Hornadys range conditions were getting tougher with a lot of mirage. Used a Magnetospeed Sporter for the chronographing. Results were pretty similar to RL22, but Alliant says they are not interchangeable.

Not according to the numbers on the Alliant web site they're very different.

That's what I've seen in my 280 AI & 300 Weatherby too. A lot lower max charge for -23 than -22 all things being equal.

22 is a bit slower than 23 like 25 is a bit slower than 26