Hodgdon
Hodgdon H414
A spherical medium-slow rifle powder long used for varmint and standard big-game cartridges.
Discontinued. Canisters still circulate, but the maker no longer produces it — and load data for it may be withdrawn or archived.
Specifications
| Manufacturer | Hodgdon |
|---|---|
| Product family | Hodgdon |
| Status | Discontinued |
| Application | rifle |
| Grain form | spherical |
| Burn-rate position | 143 of 198 (fastest = 1) — what this means |
| Typical cartridges | 22-250 Remington, 243 Winchester, 270 Winchester, 30-06 Springfield |
No longer offered on Hodgdon's store and absent from the current burn rate chart, but Hodgdon still publishes load data for it in the Reloading Data Center and canisters remain in circulation. Spherical form meters cleanly.
Burn rate
Medium-slow rifle, in the Winchester 760 / IMR 4350 region; not shown on Hodgdon's current burn rate chart.
Chart agreement: coverage gap - H414 is missing from Hodgdon's OWN 2024 chart. Vihtavuori, Shooters World and Wolfe/LoadData all list it and all treat H414 and Winchester 760 as occupying the same burn rate position (they are widely regarded as the same powder). Ranked by: 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 N150 (position 140)
- Shooters World Long Rifle (position 141)
- Alliant Power Pro 4000-MR (position 142)
- Winchester 760 (position 144)
- Accurate 2700 (position 145)
- Norma URP (position 146)
Data confidence
We flag entries we could not fully verify rather than presenting them as solid:
- Discontinued — no live manufacturer product page; details drawn from archived or secondary manufacturer material.
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.