Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles BL-C{2} Any experience?

Just picked up a couple of pounds of BL-C{2} to try to work up some loads for my 9.3x62...Does anybody have any experience using this powder in any caliber? Thanks in advance...bearit..

Use it in my 6x47 and it's a nice powder.
Fast speeds and great metering.

Does it burn dirty like everyone says? powdr

I use in in my 338 rcm, It made the best velocity with good accuracy with 210 and 225 bullets of the few powders I tried.

I can't speak for its temperature insensitivity or how dirty as I have just been shooting it in a bolt gun and typically 20 or so rounds at a sitting.

I can't speak to the dirty issue.

In bolt rifles can't see how it makes any difference and I don't do semiautomatics.

I run it in my .223 rem sometimes and I get good accuracy out of it. Can't really attest to the dirty part though...

Couldn't find any RE15 or ramshot big game?? Hell, even Varget for that matter????

Ive got a handy rifle in 30-30 win. that loves it.
Like the others I dont know if it burns dirty or not.

BL-C2 and its cousin H380 are the dirtiest and most temp sensitive in the Hodgdon line-up. Just for dirty H414 (W760)also.
That said they are still very useful powders.

Buy a crap load of patches, and brushes and a decent cleaning rod. Other than that it's okay from what I can recall.

Jim

I have been using it in 223, 308. I can't tell if its dirty, it work flawlessly. There are some better powders for it, but not enough to debate.

It is a double based powder. Most, if not all, double based powders burn dirtier than single based powder.

BL-C(2) is the first powder I used when reloading. This was for a .222Remington in 788. I used 23 grains for a Sierra 55 gr. SP. bullet, Rem. brass and a CCI small rifle Mag. primer. The velocity wasn't top notch but I dispatched a whole bunch of Rockchucks and Sage Rats. In sighting in I was getting less than 1/2" inch groups at 100 yds. Some days would shoot over 100 rounds. Dirty burning was a minor consideration.

Thanks for the replies...I have RE15 and RE17 for the 250-270gr bullets but my Ramshot BG order is still probably a month out...I do have H-414 so it sounds like i'm working on the dirty dozen...bearit..

Varget, RL15 and IMR4064 are much better for the 9.3x62 than BLC(2). Please search this forum for reload data on 9.3x62 and google search for MD's info on this cal.

I have MD's reloading data for the 9.3x62 and i'm definatly going to use it for all bullet weights but until the BG arrives i'm going to try some other powders i do have at hand....what do you guys mean by dirty? Like 10 shots and the barrel is sooty? or how bad is it....any advice needed....thanks in advance....bearit...

I've happily used it in the .308 Win, .30-30 and the .204 Ruger.

Very satisfactory results in all three cartridges.

Dirty? Not that I noticed, but I wasn't really looking. Just swabbed out the bores after use, as usual.

Guy

Worked in my .223.

Been loading it in my AR for a while now and has done pretty good. I also bought a few jugs of WC846 which is said to be the same thing.

works quite well in the .222 remington...
50 grain hornady spire point
cci standard primer
neck sized ww case
2.13 length
i'd start between 24.8 -25.4 grains
one .

can says extreme on it..