Winchester
Winchester 540
A dual-purpose shotshell and handgun BALL POWDER covering heavier shotshell target and field loads plus a range of autoloading handgun cartridges.
Discontinued. Canisters still circulate, but the maker no longer produces it — and load data for it may be withdrawn or archived.
Official Winchester load data →
Specifications
| Manufacturer | Winchester |
|---|---|
| Product family | Winchester |
| Status | Discontinued |
| Application | shotshell, pistol |
| Grain form | spherical |
| Composition | double-base |
| Typical cartridges | 12 Gauge, 20 Gauge, 9mm Luger, 40 S&W |
Discontinued. Winchester and Hodgdon no longer list this powder among current Winchester canister products and it does not appear on Hodgdon's current relative burn rate chart. It was effectively superseded in the line by Winchester Super Field. No manufacturer product page remains.
Data confidence
We flag entries we could not fully verify rather than presenting them as solid:
- Discontinued — no live manufacturer product page; details drawn from archived or secondary manufacturer material.
Sources
Other Winchester 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.