Shooters World Rifle
Shooters World Buffalo Rifle
Built for straight-walled black-powder-era rifle cartridges and for reduced-recoil, reduced-energy loads in modern bottleneck cases. Suits cast lead and jacketed bullets and Schuetzen-style target shooting.
Lovex D060 - the cast-bullet and black-powder-cartridge powder in this line, and effectively Shooters World's answer to 5744. Its real trick is consistent ignition at very low loading density, which is exactly where reduced loads normally go wrong, so it works in .45-70 and .38-55 with cast bullets and in reduced-recoil .30-06 and .243. It carries flash suppressant. Watch the D-number confusion: the current cross-reference table lists D060-01 under the name Cowboy, while the older manual uses D060-01 for Buffalo Rifle.
- cast-bullet 45-70 Government
- 38-55 Winchester
- Schuetzen target loads
- reduced-recoil 30-06
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Specifications
| Manufacturer | Shooters World |
|---|---|
| Product family | Shooters World Rifle |
| Status | Currently produced |
| Application | rifle |
| Grain form | extruded |
| Lee VMD (bulk density) | 0.0795 cc per grain · 0.81 g/cc |
| Composition | double-base |
| Flash suppressant | Yes |
| Burn-rate position | 80 of 198 (fastest = 1) — what this means |
| Typical cartridges | 45-70 Government, 38-55 Winchester, 30-06 Springfield, 243 Winchester |
Grain shape
Short-cut, narrow extruded grain that still meters acceptably by volume, because sticks short enough to tumble into the measure cavity do not bridge across it. Its bulk is what fills a large case at a light charge and keeps the powder column in contact with the primer.
Why geometry decides burn rate more than chemistry does: Shape Is the Product.
Lovex equivalent D060; Shooters World's Lovex cross-reference table lists the D060-01 lot designation under the name Cowboy, and the 2018-era manual uses D060-01 for Buffalo Rifle. Short-cut, narrow extruded grain that still meters acceptably through a volumetric measure, and Shooters World highlights consistent ignition at very low loading density - the usual problem with reduced loads. Contains flash suppressant. 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
Fast rifle / slow pistol crossover range.
Chart agreement: consistent across the charts that list it; carried by only 2 of the charts consulted 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 H4227 (position 77)
- Alliant Power Pro 300-MP (position 78)
- Accurate 5744 (position 79)
- Accurate 1680 (position 81)
- Shooters World Blackout (position 82)
- Accurate LT-30 (position 83)
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.