Alliant Reloder
Alliant Reloder 33
A very slow magnum rifle powder formulated for long-range .338 Lapua and other large magnum rifle cartridges.
Specifications
| Manufacturer | Alliant |
|---|---|
| Product family | Alliant Reloder |
| Status | Currently produced |
| Application | rifle |
| Grain form | extruded |
| Burn-rate position | 192 of 198 (fastest = 1) — what this means |
| Typical cartridges | .338 Lapua Magnum, .338 Remington Ultra Magnum |
Alliant emphasises superior lot-to-lot consistency. Suited only to very large capacity cases.
Burn rate
Second-slowest in Alliant's line, ahead only of Reloder 50.
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:
- Vihtavuori N568 (position 189)
- Ramshot LRT (position 190)
- Vihtavuori N570 (position 191)
- Vihtavuori 24N41 (position 193)
- Hodgdon H50BMG (position 194)
- Hodgdon US 869 (position 195)
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.