Shooters World Rifle
Shooters World Match Rifle
A service-rifle and long-range target powder. Shooters World points it at CMP and Service Rifle competition, including reduced-pressure loads appropriate to the M1 Garand's op-rod, and at general match loading across a wide spread of bottleneck cases.
Lovex D073-06, the slow end of the D073 family - a service-rifle and match powder near Accurate 2520, CFE 223, Reloder 15 and IMR 4064, with enough port pressure to run a gas gun and low enough residue for a long string. Shooters World specifically calls out reduced-pressure loads appropriate to a Garand op-rod. The appeal is match burn speed with ball metering; the US user record is still thin, so expect to develop rather than copy.
- CMP and Service Rifle competition
- Garand loads
- 308 Winchester match
- heavy-bullet 223 Remington
Who has Shooters World Match Rifle 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 →
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Specifications
| Manufacturer | Shooters World |
|---|---|
| Product family | Shooters World Rifle |
| Status | Currently produced |
| Application | rifle |
| Grain form | spherical |
| Lee VMD (bulk density) | 0.0687 cc per grain · 0.94 g/cc |
| Composition | double-base |
| Burn-rate position | 126 of 198 (fastest = 1) — what this means |
| Typical cartridges | 223 Remington, 5.56mm NATO, 308 Winchester, 30-06 Springfield, 30-30 Winchester, 7mm-08 Remington, 6mm BR, 6mm PPC, 204 Ruger, 7mm Remington Magnum |
Grain shape
Spherical, so it drops repeatably where the extruded match powders it competes with bridge and shear. Same chemistry as Tactical Rifle and AR-Plus with a thicker web - the family ladders on one recipe because wall thickness, not composition, is doing the work.
Why geometry decides burn rate more than chemistry does: Shape Is the Product.
Lovex equivalent D073-06. Low residue and enough port pressure to work gas-operated semi-automatics reliably. Being spherical it meters more easily than the extruded powders it competes with. 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 to medium-slow rifle; near Accurate 2520, CFE 223, Reloder 15 and IMR 4064.
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:
- Accurate 2520 (position 123)
- Alliant Reloder 15 (position 124)
- Norma 203-B (position 125)
- Vihtavuori N140 (position 127)
- Shooters World Precision Rifle (position 128)
- Hodgdon Varget (position 129)
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.