Alliant Pistol/Shotshell
Alliant Promo
An economy-priced 12 gauge target powder for trap, skeet and sporting clays, with secondary handgun use.
Specifications
| Manufacturer | Alliant |
|---|---|
| Product family | Alliant Pistol/Shotshell |
| Status | Currently produced |
| Application | shotshell, pistol |
| Grain form | flake |
| Burn-rate position | 12 of 198 (fastest = 1) — what this means |
| Typical cartridges | 12 gauge |
Alliant states Promo matches Red Dot's burn speed but is denser, so a smaller measure bushing is needed to throw the same charge. Check Alliant's bushing chart rather than assuming a Red Dot bushing carries over.
Burn rate
Same burn speed as Red Dot per Alliant, listed immediately after it.
Chart agreement: DISAGREEMENT — Alliant's own Reloader's Guide orders Bullseye FASTER than Promo and Clay Dot; 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:
- Hodgdon Titewad (position 9)
- Ramshot Competition (position 10)
- Alliant Red Dot (position 11)
- Hodgdon Clays (position 13)
- Alliant Clay Dot (position 14)
- Hodgdon Hi-Skor 700-X (position 15)
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.