Alliant Reloder
Alliant Reloder 19
A heavy rifle powder for most medium and heavy rifle loads. Alliant calls it the powder of choice for .30-06 and .338 calibers.
Specifications
| Manufacturer | Alliant |
|---|---|
| Product family | Alliant Reloder |
| Status | Currently produced |
| Application | rifle |
| Grain form | extruded |
| Burn-rate position | 159 of 198 (fastest = 1) — what this means |
| Typical cartridges | .30-06 Springfield, .270 Winchester, .338 Winchester Magnum |
Alliant emphasises superb accuracy plus excellent metering and consistency. Light magnum rifle loads are listed as a secondary use.
Burn rate
Slower than Reloder 17, faster than Power Pro 4000-MR - a standard-to-light-magnum rifle speed.
Chart agreement: DISAGREEMENT — Alliant's own Reloader's Guide places Power Pro 4000-MR SLOWER than Reloder 16, 17 and 19; this list, following the Hodgdon spine, places it faster. 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 Hybrid 100V (position 156)
- Winchester StaBALL 6.5 (position 157)
- Hodgdon Superformance (position 158)
- IMR 4831 (position 160)
- Ramshot Hunter (position 161)
- Vihtavuori N160 (position 162)
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.