Hodgdon Extreme
Hodgdon H50BMG
A clean-burning extruded powder developed specifically for the 50 BMG cartridge and long-range shooting with it.
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 | 194 of 198 (fastest = 1) — what this means |
| Typical cartridges | 50 BMG |
Shares Varget's thermal-stability technology; Hodgdon reports very low extreme spreads in velocity and pressure. A dedicated large-case powder.
Burn rate
Among the slowest powders charted, near Ramshot LRT and Alliant Reloder 50.
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:
- Vihtavuori N570 (position 191)
- Alliant Reloder 33 (position 192)
- Vihtavuori 24N41 (position 193)
- Hodgdon US 869 (position 195)
- Shooters World SW 50BMG (position 196)
- Alliant Reloder 50 (position 197)
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.