Vihtavuori N100 Rifle
Vihtavuori N140
Vihtavuori's most versatile mid-range rifle powder, covering everything from .223 up to magnums across hunting and sport shooting. They frame it as an accuracy choice rather than a maximum-velocity one.
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 | 127 of 198 (fastest = 1) — what this means |
| Typical cartridges | 308 Winchester, 30-06 Springfield, 223 Remington, 6.5x55 SE, 375 H&H Magnum |
Vihtavuori highlights the grain geometry and graphite coating as making it meter easily in progressive and volumetric equipment.
Burn rate
Mid-scale rifle powder; on Vihtavuori's chart it falls just ahead of N540 and N150.
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 15 (position 124)
- Norma 203-B (position 125)
- Shooters World Match Rifle (position 126)
- Shooters World Precision Rifle (position 128)
- Hodgdon Varget (position 129)
- Winchester 748 (position 130)
What reloaders say about it
Unverified community anecdote. The following is a summary of what handloaders report in public forums. It is not manufacturer information, it has not been tested, it may be wrong, and it contains no load data by design. Treat it as colour, not guidance.
Vihtavuori's rifle powders occupy an interesting position: users describe them as consistently available and consistently excellent, with the historic objection being price rather than performance. Several posters report deliberately switching to VV after being unable to source Hodgdon or IMR powders, and reporting no regrets.
- reputation for consistency and clean burning
- historically the expensive option; users report the price gap has narrowed as everything else went up
- notably better reported availability than the popular Hodgdon extruded powders
- adopted by users as a scarcity refuge
Availability: Repeatedly described as 'always on the shelf' relative to Varget and H4350, and users report VV pricing rising less steeply than competitors'.
Consensus level: commonly held. Drawn from thread 1, thread 2, thread 3.
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.