Vihtavuori N100 Rifle
Vihtavuori N170
Reserved for very large capacity cases; long-range big-game hunting and heavy-bullet target work in belted and ultra magnums.
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 | 178 of 198 (fastest = 1) — what this means |
| Typical cartridges | 300 Weatherby Magnum, 300 Remington Ultra Magnum, 338 Lapua Magnum, 7mm Remington Magnum |
Cylindrical, single-perforated extruded grains that are large by N100 standards. Vihtavuori makes no decoppering or temperature-stability claim for it.
Burn rate
The slowest powder in the N100 series, and one of the slowest canister powders on the market from any maker.
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 25 (position 175)
- Accurate High Country (position 176)
- Vihtavuori N565 (position 177)
- Accurate MAGPRO (position 179)
- IMR Enduron 7977 (position 180)
- Alliant Reloder 26 (position 181)
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.