Charlie98, what didn't you like about BE-86? Curious, thanks.
It did not work well for me, in the use that I had selected it for... which was loading mid-weight projectiles in 9mm and .45ACP, fired in short barrels, as a replacement for Unique.
In 9mm, with 124grn bullets, I actually hit a velocity threshold where it plateaued, and more powder did not add any velocity. Further, it did not burn well... other than dumping half-burnt powder on my arm and face. That very well may have been a byproduct of the short barrel... 3.1" and 3.6" in the 9mm Kahrs.
It worked well enough in the 200grn .45ACP loads I worked up, for my 4" Kimbers, but nothing earth shattering. Oddly enough, the POI changed significantly over my standard load of Unique.
Scratching my head over the performance there, I went ahead and loaded up some in .45 Colt... for my 5.5" Vaquero, and my 16" H&R. It did better there, I'm guessing because of the longer barrel, and perhaps the heavier bullets, and in fact turned in some pretty consistent velocity numbers.
At the end of the day, BE-86 did nothing that Unique wasn't already doing with ease, and, like SportPistol and W244, BE-86 required far more tinkering with the load to get acceptable performance... in my use case. The suggesting that 'BE-86 is the new Unique' is not really true... not in how it performs, not in how it handles different variables.
