Vihtavuori N100 Rifle
Vihtavuori N130
A multipurpose powder for smaller rifle calibers with lighter bullets and for straight-wall cases. Vihtavuori aims it at small-game hunting and target shooting.
Official Vihtavuori load data →
Specifications
| Manufacturer | Vihtavuori |
|---|---|
| Product family | Vihtavuori N100 Rifle |
| Status | Currently produced |
| Application | rifle |
| Grain form | extruded |
| Composition | single-base |
| Burn-rate position | 96 of 198 (fastest = 1) — what this means |
| Typical cartridges | 222 Remington, 223 Remington, 6mm PPC, 45-70 Government, 458 Winchester Magnum |
Vihtavuori credits N130 with their anti-coppering technology. It shares grain dimensions with N133 and N135 and is differentiated by surface coating. Formerly known as N303.
Burn rate
Relatively fast on Vihtavuori's rifle scale, between N120 and N133.
Chart agreement: consistent across charts - listed in the same relative neighbourhood by every publisher that carries it Ranked by: Hodgdon, Vihtavuori, 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:
- Alliant Reloder TS 11 (position 93)
- Norma 201 (position 94)
- Alliant Power Pro 1200-R (position 95)
- Hodgdon H322 (position 97)
- Accurate 2015 (position 98)
- Alliant Reloder 10x (position 99)
Sources
Other Vihtavuori 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.