Hornady 147gr ELD M Powder

[Nine Banger]

I pulled a factory loaded bullet to check my distance to lands and compare it to a few other bullets I had out.



The powder was compacted.





It took a good bit of tapping to get it out and I had to send something down the pipe to poke and swirl to get the last grains out.

Can anyone identify it?



I was going to re-seat it after measuring but I dropped a loaded round on the crucible while I was measuring and sent powder all over.

 

[Castle Rock]

The original Hornady CM factory loads used H4350 and when they couldn’t get that for a while they went to Reloader 17
I can’t be positive but I think RL 17 is most likely

 

[pbroski]

My guess is Superformance.

 

[swavescatter]

Staball?

 

[Nine Banger]

It looks geometric like tiny little hearing aid batteries.

 

[Dukhtr3]

Looks like 6.5 staball to me

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[Juan_ID]

I spoke to a couple hornady guys at the nrl fianle last year and it sounds like they use a fair bit of proprietary powders that aren’t available to the general public. Maybe that’s one of those special blends that looks like something it’s not?

 

[long hunter]

Stick with H-4350 loading data in the Hornady loading Manuel, this seems like a dangerous road to go down, and perhaps mis-leading to a new re-loader.

 

[WKR]

That looks like a blended powder to me. The kernels are not uniform.

 

[Nine Banger]

That looks like a blended powder to me. The kernels are not uniform.

You're right.

I checked the trashcan and its 2 different powders.

That explains why it locked up so well inside the case too.

 

[Castle Rock]

The original Hornady CM factory loads used H4350 and when they couldn’t get that for a while they went to Reloader 17
I can’t be positive but I think RL 17 is most likely

Ah I couldn’t see the picture before
Definitely not 17

 

[Juan_ID]

That looks like a blended powder to me. The kernels are not uniform.

Blended was the word I was looking for in my post. And I guess those would be available to the public if you knew how to mix them. Don’t mind me, just talking about shit I know nothing about.