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I scrapped R26 AND R22 for the 340. Went to R19 and R17 work luck.
3000 fps easy with 250 Sierra GK and R19. Still testing R17. I use the R26 in my 6.5-284 and will continue to do so

I hope to give it a try when/if I can ever find any around here, loading my 6.5 cm with 140 nosler AB and a max dose of H4350 and only getting 2676 from a 22" on my ruger 77

I don't it's the magic pill for the CM
If you want more velocity try R17. I'm mostly loading 90s and 100 grain in mine so using Varget

My two cents......and accuracy over velocity.....

In the two 6.5 PRC's I had built, H-1000 was the winner over R-26.
140 VLD's at 3100 in a 24" Bartlein.

The two 6 PRC's I had built, R-26 was the winner over H-1000.
108 ELD'M's at 3425 in a 24" Bartlein.

I shot a lb of it thru a 6.5 creedmoor a few years back. I was planning to shoot matches with, and didn't find a load I was satisfied with. Switched to H4350, and while i'll admit i put a lil more time into it I found my 1/4" load. Grabbed it again for a 100gr 243 hunting load last fall. I chose it that time for the velocity gain in a 22" bbl. I ran it up to pressure and backed off about half a grain, and played with seating depth, and ended up with a hot load that shot 1/2 to 3/4" with minimal effort. Plenty accurate enough for deer.

Sounds about right but I'm having great accuracy with it in my 6.5-284 with 143s. Getting .3 MOA at 800 meters

RL 26 is great in the 6.5X55 swede and 6.5 creedmoor!

However, in 4 different rifles that me and some of my shooting compadres load for, RL 23 achieved better velocities, accuracy, and ES SD numbers with 140/147 elds.

Trystan

I'm not trying it

I recall when it was available at Sportsman's Warehouses here in Oregon, when it was brand new....

no one bought it.... The price was down to $22 a pound....

A friend would buy a pound of it each time he walked into a S.W. for something else...

even after giving some away to friends... He's sitting on 30 to 32 pounds or so of it...

Some of us planned ahead when Trump was in office... figuring we'd have another democRAT in office some day again...
and have to deal with the same panic buying once again....

I don't have a need for it, or I'd have done the same thing....instead I have a bunch of 3031, I'm probably never going to use...

getting out of the gun business anyway, with the democRATs in power....

I picked up a pound of RL26 by mistake last night at my LGS. I wanted to pick up RL19 but grabbed the RL26 by mistake. I was just so happy that he had Varget and IMR4831 that I didn't look at the Alliant bottle close enough. I guess I will need to read over this thread and find out what I can use it for.