Vihtavuori N100 Rifle
Vihtavuori N133
The classic short-range benchrest powder. Vihtavuori originally developed it for 5.56 NATO and notes it has been behind a large number of standing benchrest records; it also serves AR-15 practical 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 | 101 of 198 (fastest = 1) — what this means |
| Typical cartridges | 6mm PPC, 223 Remington, 222 Remington, 45-70 Government |
Tubular grains. Vihtavuori makes no decoppering claim for this one.
Burn rate
Medium-fast rifle powder, sitting between N130 and N135.
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:
- Accurate 2015 (position 98)
- Alliant Reloder 10x (position 99)
- IMR 3031 (position 100)
- Hodgdon Benchmark (position 102)
- Hodgdon H335 (position 103)
- Ramshot X-Terminator (position 104)
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.