243 powder recommendation?

[Wind Gypsy]

H4350 is readily available and would be near the top of my list to try first.

 

[Darkside]

I have also used Superperformance and
Rl- 15 and 15.5.
I'm questioning you haven't made up your mind yet?

 

[elevatorman]

I have also used Superperformance and
Rl- 15 and 15.5.
I'm questioning you haven't made up your mind yet?

I bought a pound of staball 6.5. It was temp stable, top velocity, normally priced and available everywhere right now. We'll see how it shoots. I would've went with 4350 but hodgons price gouging on it. 4831s even worse. I get inflation and all but when all the powders are 50-52 then hodgon just tacks on an extra 6-15 bucks per pound, yeah I'm gonna try staball. If it shoots decent it's doing alot for being an affordable powder. If I drop bullet weights to 80 gr someday I'll try superformance

 

[Justabirdwatcher]

I bought a pound of staball 6.5. It was temp stable, top velocity, normally priced and available everywhere right now. We'll see how it shoots. I would've went with 4350 but hodgons price gouging on it. 4831s even worse. I get inflation and all but when all the powders are 50-52 then hodgon just tacks on an extra 6-15 bucks per pound, yeah I'm gonna try staball. If it shoots decent it's doing alot for being an affordable powder. If I drop bullet weights to 80 gr someday I'll try superformance

Doesn't Hodgdon now own Winchester powders that makes StaBall? Either way, I hear you on the price gouging. Hard to tell who's doing it but from what I've seen, it's the LGS and not Hodgdon. Even after the prices for components came back to earth post-Covid, I'm still seeing outrageous prices at the LGS's, but that could be based on what they paid for that shipment back when they received it. I sure do miss pre-Covid powder and primer prices though. $50/1000 for LR primers and $25/lb. for powder all day at my small town LGS before then. Didn't know how good we had it I suppose.

 

[Wind Gypsy]

Doesn't Hodgdon now own Winchester powders that makes StaBall? Either way, I hear you on the price gouging. Hard to tell who's doing it but from what I've seen, it's the LGS and not Hodgdon. Even after the prices for components came back to earth post-Covid, I'm still seeing outrageous prices at the LGS's, but that could be based on what they paid for that shipment back when they received it. I sure do miss pre-Covid powder and primer prices though. $50/1000 for LR primers and $25/lb. for powder all day at my small town LGS before then. Didn't know how good we had it I suppose.

Hodgdon sells powder direct at prices higher than online retailers.

 

[elevatorman]

Doesn't Hodgdon now own Winchester powders that makes StaBall? Either way, I hear you on the price gouging. Hard to tell who's doing it but from what I've seen, it's the LGS and not Hodgdon. Even after the prices for components came back to earth post-Covid, I'm still seeing outrageous prices at the LGS's, but that could be based on what they paid for that shipment back when they received it. I sure do miss pre-Covid powder and primer prices though. $50/1000 for LR primers and $25/lb. for powder all day at my small town LGS before then. Didn't know how good we had it I suppose.

I think it's hit or miss. Like my lgs usually hikes prices up on everything and was selling cci primers at 15 each. But some of their powders were 40 something, real good prices. I think hodgons deal is where the powder is made. Like h1000 or anything coming from Australia is crazy high. 70 bucks a pound territory. Yes they own winchester, I don't know where it's made but it must cost them alot less to produce than the imported powders. I've heard some reports of fliers with staball so hopefully it shoots good. I'm not totally cheap. If 4350 was 57 and there wasn't staball cheaper to buy, I'd just use it. powder prices haven't went up proportional to primer prices. Last time I bought a bunch powder was around 40 a pound but primers were 3 to 4 for a hundred.