Alliant Pistol/Shotshell
Alliant 410
Built specifically for .410 bore skeet and field loads - Alliant calls it the only flake powder designed for that job.
Specifications
| Manufacturer | Alliant |
|---|---|
| Product family | Alliant Pistol/Shotshell |
| Status | Currently produced |
| Application | shotshell |
| Grain form | flake |
| Burn-rate position | 61 of 198 (fastest = 1) — what this means |
| Typical cartridges | .410 bore |
Alliant states it is clean burning and charge efficient, with consistent results across weather conditions and production lots. Alliant does not market it as one of its temperature-stabilised formulations.
Burn rate
One of the slowest shotshell powders Alliant lists, just ahead of 2400.
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, Wolfe/LoadData.
Powders charted near it — neighbours on the chart are not substitutes, and adjacency tells you nothing about what charge either one takes:
- Accurate No. 7 (position 58)
- Alliant Pro Reach (position 59)
- Hodgdon Longshot (position 60)
- Accurate TCM (position 62)
- Alliant 2400 (position 63)
- Ramshot Enforcer (position 64)
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.