I picked up a 1 lb jug a few weeks back, because the velocities shown on Alliant's website seemed really great for the 3 guns for which I'm currently loading, (7mm-08, 243, and 30-06), and it is supposedly temp insensitive.
I loaded up a few test loads last week and shot them on Saturday. With the 243, I'm shooting 80 gr ttsx and I got the best groups I have shot so far with that gun after trying 3 other powders, about 7/8" which isn't bad for a model 7 with a 11" LOP cut off stock that doesn't fit me at all.
In my 7mm-08, I got 1.5" groups which didn't satisfy me, but those were about the same as I got with RL-15 and better than Big Game using the same 139 SST bullets. I'm thinking the gun doesn't like the SST, and I'm moving on to something else. It shoots 3/4" or better groups routinely with 120 ttsx, but I'm just wanting to try something different.
Anybody else spent any time working with RL-16 yet? Does it live up to expectations?
