Alliant 2023 Reloaders Guide

[Howa 9700]

Not sure how I missed this, as I had looked for it before, as an alternative to searching for and downloading one load at a time. Anyway, for those like me who didn't have one, here it is.

Data for shotgun pretty good. Rifle and pistol not so much. Some popular calibers missing entirely. What there is only list loads for mostly Federal or Speer bullets.

And in the "say whaaat" category, there is a +P section for 9mm loads, and it lists only one powder and in my mind, out of all the powders Alliant sells to use in 9mm, it was not what I would have thought. It is Sport Pistol.

Interesting to see the thinking of the guys that make and sell the stuff.

https://www.alliantpowder.com/resources/catalog/AP399_2023AlliantPowderReloadersGuide_SinglePgsNoCrops.pdf

 

[9mmepiphany]

And in the "say whaaat" category, there is a +P section for 9mm loads, and it lists only one powder and in my mind, out of all the powders Alliant sells to use in 9mm, it was not what I would have thought. It is Sport Pistol.

If you haven't tried it Sport Pistol is a very good powder for use in 9mm loads. It meters well in a progressive press, burns very clean, isn't overly temperature sensitive, and doesn't run too hot.

I found it looking for a less expensive powder for my 9mm competition load than N320 pushing a 124gr RMR MW. That lead me first to Alliant e3 and then to Sport Pistol. For the heavier 147gr RMR HMW, I've found the N310 seems to work better.

 

[Charlie98]

I've not been a big fan of Alliant's reloading data for some time, and particularly their online data, which is difficult to navigate. They tend to provide data for their darling powders, not their powders across the board, as, for example, their .45ACP data shows.

 

[CoalCrackerAl]

They will send you a paper data booklet too free.

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

I've not been a big fan of Alliant's reloading data for some time, and particularly their online data, which is difficult to navigate. They tend to provide data for their darling powders, not their powders across the board, as, for example, their .45ACP data shows.

Yup. I’ve got lots of cookbooks. I only use a few because, while I can follow the recipes in all of them, some authors make the recipe harder to follow than is necessary and others use equipment or ingredients only found in very high end restaurant kitchens and that the private chefs of only a few very wealthy celebrities can afford. I still have the books but I don’t follow the recipes; I use as idea books - I have an idea for a dish, I have a recipe, and I have a list of available ingredients and equipment...
To me, the Alliant manuals are the equivalent of those celebrichef cookbooks: the ingredients are nothing I can buy and the recipes are not conducive to the type of shooting I do but, they’re sometimes a good starting point for an idea.