Accurate
Accurate 2230
Designed around the 223 Remington but usable across small and medium calibres, including big-bore straight-wall rifle rounds.
Specifications
| Manufacturer | Accurate |
|---|---|
| Product family | Accurate |
| Status | Currently produced |
| Application | rifle |
| Grain form | spherical |
| Composition | double-base |
| Temperature stable | Not marketed as temperature-stable |
| Burn-rate position | 106 of 198 (fastest = 1) — what this means |
| Typical cartridges | 223 Remington, 308 Winchester, 458 Winchester Magnum |
Manufacturer points to the flow characteristics and grain size as making it well suited to progressive loading. Hodgdon publishes separate 2230-C and 2230-S reference sheets.
Burn rate
Just slower than Ramshot X-Terminator and immediately faster than Accurate 2460.
Chart agreement: consistent across the three charts that list it Ranked by: Hodgdon, Shooters World, Wolfe/LoadData.
Powders charted near it — neighbours on the chart are not substitutes, and adjacency tells you nothing about what charge either one takes:
- Hodgdon H335 (position 103)
- Ramshot X-Terminator (position 104)
- Shooters World AR-Plus (position 105)
- Accurate 2460 (position 107)
- IMR 8208 XBR (position 108)
- Alliant AR-Comp (position 109)
Sources
Other Accurate powders
Verify the charge, not just the recipe
Good data gets you a safe starting point. It does not tell you what actually went into the case on stroke 340 — a bridged measure, a double charge, a squib. That is what an RCM Laser Powder Check is for.