Alliant Pistol/Shotshell
Alliant Red Dot
A long-standing target shotshell powder for light and standard 12 gauge clay loads, with handgun use as a secondary application.
Specifications
| Manufacturer | Alliant |
|---|---|
| Product family | Alliant Pistol/Shotshell |
| Status | Currently produced |
| Application | shotshell, pistol |
| Grain form | flake |
| Burn-rate position | 11 of 198 (fastest = 1) — what this means |
| Typical cartridges | 12 gauge, 20 gauge |
A long-established Alliant target powder, reformulated to burn substantially cleaner than the original. Promo shares its burn speed but is denser.
Burn rate
Fast burning; sits just ahead of Bullseye in Alliant's ordering.
Chart agreement: consistent across charts - listed in the same relative neighbourhood by every publisher that carries it 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 Perfect Pattern (position 8)
- Hodgdon Titewad (position 9)
- Ramshot Competition (position 10)
- Alliant Promo (position 12)
- Hodgdon Clays (position 13)
- Alliant Clay Dot (position 14)
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.