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Just picked up a pound of this powder...seems to run in the H322 burn range....

anyone else use this powder on a routine basis?

my uses are going to be 20 Practical, 223 ( maybe) and 22.250

Never really used much of Accurate's powder, except a little of 2520, and loaded up a batch of their 4064 in 22.250 a disabled Marine buddy picked up... he claimed it shot real well...

I used it in my 22 BR and it not only made incredably tight groups if I put a 50 grain V-Max in front of it 400 yard sage rats turned to mist.

I have received good results with 2015 in the following cartridges. The 17 fireball 20 gr Horn. excellent accuracy and about the highest velocity of any powder tried in that cartridge.
20 VarTarg 32 Sierra good vel. and accuracy but Re7 beat it out by a little in accuracy.

22 PPC with 50 Nos.BT best accuracy of anything I tried in this cartridge.
223 40 Nos. great accuracy but never gave the velocity the book showed. But was fast enough for me.
45-70 300 jacketed and 350 cast top velocity and good accuracy.

221 Fireball gave good accuracy with 50 and 55 gr. bullets but vel was pretty low. Tried once with 40 gr vel. low to slow burn for this cartridge in my opinion.
Only shot it extensively in the PPC and a moderate amount in the 223 and 17FB. Have not tried it in the bigger 20 and 22 cartridges.

I got pretty decent accuracy and velocity with it in the .223 Remington years ago, when it was called 2015-BR. The current version doesn't seem quite as accurate (no pun intended), and I note they have also reduced the loads on their website compared to the old powder. With the old powder, I was using 25.0 gr with a 50 gr Nosler Ballistic Tip for around 3400 fps out of a 24" Savage 1 in 12" twist. Their current load data indicates a full grain less for a maximum. I have pretty much gone over to Ramshot TAC in the .223, better metering in a powder measure, cleaner burning less copper fouling, very good accuracy and velocity in bullets from 40 to 69 gr. I would think that current 2015 would give decent results. Using Lyman No. 49 data, I was able to push the 40gr V-Max bullet 3800 fps out of a 26" Remington SPS Varmint barrel with the current powder. (Lyman's listed load was 1.6 gr over Western Powder's listed max for that bullet, but seemed okay in the Remington 1 in 12" twist.)

The problem with Accurate 2015 is where was it made ????

Early lots were made in the Czech Republic, then in some other country, now it comes out of Canada.

The early 2015 that came from CZ is closer to H322 but the currently manufactured canadian 2015 is quite a bit slower burn rate

This powder was one of the most accurate i ever ran in my 223 ackley,temperature really effects it, worked up my chuck loads in 70 degree weather, wen't chuck hunting bin mid 80's weather and blew several primers so I stopped using it years ago, currently using 14 hrs. of bluedot and it works great,varying temps. don't seem to effect it, shot this load in 100 degree heat (600) rounds no problems lot's of dead p.d."s.