Winchester
Winchester Super Handicap
The same propellant Winchester loads in its Super Handicap factory ammunition. It is a slow-burning, high-energy shotshell powder aimed at handicap trap and long-range sporting clays loads, where Winchester emphasises velocity together with pattern quality.
Official Winchester load data →
Specifications
| Manufacturer | Winchester |
|---|---|
| Product family | Winchester |
| Status | Currently produced |
| Application | shotshell |
| Grain form | spherical |
| Composition | double-base |
| Temperature stable | Not marketed as temperature-stable |
| Burn-rate position | 25 of 198 (fastest = 1) — what this means |
| Typical cartridges | 12 Gauge |
Winchester canister propellants are spherical BALL POWDER products made in the USA; the round kernels meter precisely through volumetric powder measures. Not listed as temperature stable. Note that Winchester describes it as slow-burning relative to other shotshell powders, not relative to rifle powders.
Burn rate
Fast shotshell speed, just slower than Super Target but still near the fast end of the chart.
Chart agreement: consistent across the three charts that list it Ranked by: Hodgdon, Vihtavuori, 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 Green Dot (position 22)
- Winchester Super Target (WST) (position 23)
- Hodgdon Trail Boss (position 24)
- Shooters World Clean Shot (position 26)
- Hodgdon International (position 27)
- Vihtavuori N320 (position 28)
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.