Ramshot
Ramshot Wild Boar
A general-purpose European-market rifle powder covering a broad range from small varmint cartridges through medium and large-bore hunting rounds, including several European chamberings.
European market only - Hodgdon's own data sheet is headed 'Not Available in the United States', and it is absent from the US burn chart, the data centre and the shop. For a US loader that is the whole story: you will not be buying it, and if a can somehow reaches you the standalone PDF is the only official data. On paper it is a general-purpose medium-speed rifle powder spanning .30-30 through .30-06 and several European chamberings.
- European-market rifle loading
- 308 Winchester
- 30-06 Springfield
Who has Ramshot Wild Boar today
Checked October 10None of the retailers we track list Ramshot Wild Boar right now. See what is in stock.
Specifications
| Manufacturer | Ramshot |
|---|---|
| Product family | Ramshot |
| Status | Currently produced |
| Application | rifle |
| Typical cartridges | 308 Winchester, 30-06 Springfield, 22-250 Remington, 30-30 Winchester, 8x57mm JS Mauser, 6.5x47 Lapua |
Grain shape
Grain form and base composition are not published for this one, so there is nothing honest to say about how its surface behaves as it burns or how it meters.
Why geometry decides burn rate more than chemistry does: Shape Is the Product.
European availability only — Hodgdon's own data sheet is headed 'Not Available in the United States'. It is absent from the US relative burn-rate chart, from the Hodgdon Reloading Data Center powder list and from Hodgdon's shop, so the standalone PDF is the only official data source. It has no US product page.
This powder is obscure enough in the US that its practical character is thinly documented. The note above is deliberately short rather than padded.
Data confidence
We flag entries we could not fully verify rather than presenting them as solid:
- Manufacturer no longer publishes a product page for this powder; composition and grain form are unconfirmed.
Sources
The specifications above come from Ramshot's own published documentation, linked below. The two “RCM's read” sections are ours, not theirs — our assessment of what this powder is like to load, drawn from its published characteristics and from what handloaders consistently report. No manufacturer endorses them and no source below backs them. If you think we have one wrong, tell us — we would rather fix it.