Hodgdon Extreme
Hodgdon H1000
A slow-burning magnum powder for overbored cases and for heavy bullets in standard magnums; also popular with long-range match shooters.
Specifications
| Manufacturer | Hodgdon |
|---|---|
| Product family | Hodgdon Extreme |
| Status | Currently produced |
| Application | rifle |
| Grain form | extruded |
| Composition | single-base |
| Temperature stable | Yes — claimed by the manufacturer |
| Burn-rate position | 182 of 198 (fastest = 1) — what this means |
| Typical cartridges | 7mm Remington Magnum, 7mm STW, 30-378 Weatherby Magnum, 6mm-284, 257 Weatherby Magnum, 270 Winchester, 300 Winchester Magnum |
Extruded, Extreme-series temperature stability. Because it is slow it works best where case capacity supports a full charge column.
Burn rate
Very slow rifle, between Alliant Reloder 26 and Ramshot Grand.
Chart agreement: consistent across charts - listed in the same relative neighbourhood by every publisher that carries it Ranked by: Hodgdon, 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:
- Accurate MAGPRO (position 179)
- IMR Enduron 7977 (position 180)
- Alliant Reloder 26 (position 181)
- Ramshot Grand (position 183)
- Ramshot Magnum (position 184)
- Norma 217 (position 185)
Sources
Other Hodgdon 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.