Ramshot
Ramshot Enforcer
A magnum revolver powder for full-power loads in the largest handgun cartridges.
Specifications
| Manufacturer | Ramshot |
|---|---|
| Product family | Ramshot |
| Status | Currently produced |
| Application | pistol |
| Grain form | spherical |
| Composition | double-base |
| Temperature stable | Not marketed as temperature-stable |
| Burn-rate position | 64 of 198 (fastest = 1) — what this means |
| Typical cartridges | 44 Remington Magnum, 454 Casull, 460 S&W Magnum, 500 S&W Magnum |
Manufacturer calls out metering quality as the main handling characteristic. Made in Belgium. Currently out of stock on Hodgdon's own shop but still a catalogued product.
Burn rate
A slow handgun powder, charted just past Alliant 2400 and ahead of Vihtavuori N105.
Chart agreement: consistent across the three charts that list it Ranked by: Hodgdon, Vihtavuori, Wolfe/LoadData.
Powders charted near it — neighbours on the chart are not substitutes, and adjacency tells you nothing about what charge either one takes:
- Alliant 410 (position 61)
- Accurate TCM (position 62)
- Alliant 2400 (position 63)
- Vihtavuori N105 Super Magnum (position 65)
- Accurate No. 9 (position 66)
- Accurate 4100 (position 67)
Sources
Other Ramshot 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.