Accurate
Accurate LT-30
A benchrest-grade Light Target powder built around the 30 BR, and applicable to other small-capacity cartridges.
Light Target: a fine-grained single-base stick built for the 30 BR and the benchrest crowd, in the 4198 speed band. It lives in .222 Remington, 30 BR and 6.5 Grendel and is a precision powder rather than a volume powder. Outside that small world almost nobody has run it, which is fine - that world is where it belongs and where the data is.
- 30 BR benchrest
- 222 Remington
- 6.5 Grendel
Who has Accurate LT-30 today
Checked October 10In stock at 2 stores — lowest in hand $58.73/lb (8 lb at Lohman Arms)
| Store | Size | Shelf | In hand /lb | Stock |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lohman ArmsHazmat charged, amount not published | 8 lb | $438.43 | $58.73 est. | In stock ↗ |
| Graf & Sons$23.50 hazmat per package | 8 lb | $454.99 | $61.55 | In stock ↗ |
| Lohman ArmsHazmat charged, amount not published | 1 lb | $57.63 | $89.07 est. | In stock ↗ |
| Graf & Sons$23.50 hazmat per package | 1 lb | $59.99 | $97.44 | In stock ↗ |
“In hand” is the shelf price plus that store’s hazmat fee and shipping, spread over one container. Stock is checked once a day — confirm on the store’s page before ordering. Compare all powders →
Specifications
| Manufacturer | Accurate |
|---|---|
| Product family | Accurate |
| Status | Currently produced |
| Application | rifle |
| Grain form | extruded |
| Lee VMD (bulk density) | 0.0750 cc per grain · 0.86 g/cc |
| Composition | single-base |
| Temperature stable | Not marketed as temperature-stable |
| Burn-rate position | 83 of 198 (fastest = 1) — what this means |
| Typical cartridges | 30 BR, 222 Remington, 6.5 Grendel |
Grain shape
Extruded but ground fine, so it throws far better than stick geometry usually allows; small grains bridge much less across a measure cavity. Thin web is what makes it this fast.
Why geometry decides burn rate more than chemistry does: Shape Is the Product.
Second powder in Accurate's Light Target series. Fine-grained single-base extruded stick, which the manufacturer positions for precision rather than volume loading. Made in Canada.
Burn rate
Just slower than Accurate 1680 and faster than Hodgdon CFE BLK; Accurate compares its rate to the 4198 range.
Chart agreement: consistent, but single-publisher - ranked only by Hodgdon (and echoed by the Wolfe/LoadData compilation). No second manufacturer's chart carries it, so the position is uncorroborated. Ranked by: Hodgdon, Wolfe/LoadData.
Powders charted near it — neighbours on the chart are not substitutes, and adjacency tells you nothing about what charge either one takes:
- Shooters World Buffalo Rifle (position 80)
- Accurate 1680 (position 81)
- Shooters World Blackout (position 82)
- Hodgdon CFE BLK (position 84)
- Norma 200 (position 85)
- Accurate 2200 (position 86)
Sources
The specifications above come from Accurate's own published documentation, linked below. The two “RCM's read” sections are ours, not theirs — our assessment of what this powder is like to load, drawn from its published characteristics and from what handloaders consistently report. No manufacturer endorses them and no source below backs them. If you think we have one wrong, tell us — we would rather fix it.