Alliant Pistol/Shotshell
Alliant 2400
A magnum handgun powder with a long reputation in .44 Magnum and other magnum revolver cartridges. Also used in small-capacity rifle cartridges and .410 bore.
Specifications
| Manufacturer | Alliant |
|---|---|
| Product family | Alliant Pistol/Shotshell |
| Status | Currently produced |
| Application | pistol, rifle, shotshell |
| Grain form | flake |
| Burn-rate position | 63 of 198 (fastest = 1) — what this means |
| Typical cartridges | .44 Magnum, .357 Magnum, .22 Hornet, .218 Bee, .410 bore |
Originally developed for the .22 Hornet. Alliant still lists .22 Hornet and .218 Bee as secondary uses and calls it a shooter's choice for .410.
Burn rate
The slowest of Alliant's handgun powders and the bridge into the rifle range.
Chart agreement: DISAGREEMENT — Alliant's own Reloader's Guide orders Steel FASTER than 410 and 2400; this list, following the Hodgdon spine, orders them the other way. Ranked here per the Hodgdon chart used as this list's spine. Ranked by: Hodgdon, Alliant, Vihtavuori, 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 Longshot (position 60)
- Alliant 410 (position 61)
- Accurate TCM (position 62)
- Ramshot Enforcer (position 64)
- Vihtavuori N105 Super Magnum (position 65)
- Accurate No. 9 (position 66)
Sources
Other Alliant 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.