Ramshot
Ramshot Hunter
A big-game hunting powder for medium and short-magnum cartridges.
Specifications
| Manufacturer | Ramshot |
|---|---|
| Product family | Ramshot |
| Status | Currently produced |
| Application | rifle |
| Grain form | spherical |
| Composition | double-base |
| Temperature stable | Not marketed as temperature-stable |
| Burn-rate position | 161 of 198 (fastest = 1) — what this means |
| Typical cartridges | 270 Winchester, 300 WSM, 338 Winchester Magnum |
Manufacturer's headline claim is that it is the only spherical powder in the popular 4350 burn range, which is what gives it metering behaviour that extruded powders of the same speed cannot match. Made in Belgium.
Burn rate
In the 4350 speed range, charted just past IMR 4831 and ahead of Vihtavuori N160.
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:
- Hodgdon Superformance (position 158)
- Alliant Reloder 19 (position 159)
- IMR 4831 (position 160)
- Vihtavuori N160 (position 162)
- Vihtavuori N555 (position 164)
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.