Shooters World Rifle
Shooters World AR-Plus
Optimized by Shooters World for standard-velocity service-weight loads in AR-pattern 5.56mm and 7.62mm rifles, with added emphasis on clean burning and flash suppression. Also listed for a range of other bottleneck cases.
Lovex D073-04 in a Shooters World can, and the D-number is the useful part - it is the same chemistry family as Tactical Rifle (D073-01) and Match Rifle (D073-06), tuned to a different web. This is the one aimed at mainstream service-weight 5.56mm and 7.62mm NATO loads, with flash suppression added, while Tactical Rifle covers the wider spread including very light charges. Keeping the Lovex number on the label is the point of the brand: you can cross-reference European Lovex data against US SAAMI data and know what you actually bought. Modest US user record so far.
- 5.56mm NATO service loads
- 7.62mm NATO
- 223 Remington on a progressive
Who has Shooters World AR-Plus today
Checked October 10In stock at 1 store — lowest in hand $51.93/lb (8 lb at Graf & Sons)
| Store | Size | Shelf | In hand /lb | Stock |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Graf & Sons$23.50 hazmat per package | 8 lb | $378.00 | $51.93 | In stock ↗ |
| Graf & Sons$23.50 hazmat per package | 1 lb | $51.99 | $89.44 | In stock ↗ |
“In hand” is the shelf price plus that store’s hazmat fee and shipping, spread over one container. Stock is checked once a day — confirm on the store’s page before ordering. Compare all powders →
Official Shooters World load data →
Specifications
| Manufacturer | Shooters World |
|---|---|
| Product family | Shooters World Rifle |
| Status | Currently produced |
| Application | rifle |
| Grain form | spherical |
| Composition | double-base |
| Flash suppressant | Yes |
| Burn-rate position | 105 of 198 (fastest = 1) — what this means |
| Typical cartridges | 223 Remington, 5.56mm NATO, 308 Winchester, 7.62mm NATO, 22-250 Remington, 222 Remington, 303 British, 30-30 Winchester, 7.62x54R |
Grain shape
Spherical and degressive, and the reason charge-to-charge variation through a common volumetric measure stays small - the ball form is what makes an AR-volume session repeatable. Within the D073 family what changes is web thickness, not composition, which is why the three ladder cleanly on one recipe.
Why geometry decides burn rate more than chemistry does: Shape Is the Product.
Lovex equivalent D073-04. Positioned as the more specialized sibling to Tactical Rifle: Tactical Rifle for very light plinking charges and wide bullet-weight coverage, AR-Plus for the mainstream service-bullet loads. Shooters World reports very small charge-to-charge variation through common volumetric measures. Shooters World deliberately keeps the Lovex designation on the label so European Lovex data and US SAAMI data can be cross-referenced; the name-to-number table is published on the Shooters World Lovex reloading-guide page.
Burn rate
Medium rifle range, in the general area of the common AR ball powders.
Chart agreement: position varies - Shooters World's own chart bands AR Plus with Accurate 2230 / H335 / Vihtavuori N130, faster than Wolfe/LoadData places it. Positioned here per Wolfe. Not listed by Hodgdon. Ranked by: 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:
- Hodgdon Benchmark (position 102)
- Hodgdon H335 (position 103)
- Ramshot X-Terminator (position 104)
- Accurate 2230 (position 106)
- Accurate 2460 (position 107)
- IMR 8208 XBR (position 108)
This powder is obscure enough in the US that its practical character is thinly documented. The note above is deliberately short rather than padded.
Sources
The specifications above come from Shooters World'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.