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@huntnful I notice that you use quite a bit of VV powder. Have you noticed any big temp stability problems with it. I have not loaded VV in over 15 years because I thought it had pretty large temp swings. I pretty much stick to Hodgdon Extreme powders now. The speeds some of you are getting with VV is impressive, not to mention some of your groups. Great shooting.
The only VV powder that was pretty wild for me was N560, so I don’t shoot it anymore.

N555, N565 and N570 all seem to be pretty solid with temp stability. They aren’t quite H1000 stable, but they aren’t erratic by any means.

I still have a lot of H4350, H4831SC and H1000 and it’s great stuff for sure.

N565 gives like a grain of extra case fill and maybe 20-30fps over H1000. So it’s an awesome powder when you want to be in that range, and test them both and see what the bullet likes.

N570 pretty much just smokes everything and is a top performance powder to me.

N555 is close to 4831SC. So you can test those powders with a desired bullet to see if it has a preference.
 
@huntnful I notice that you use quite a bit of VV powder. Have you noticed any big temp stability problems with it. I have not loaded VV in over 15 years because I thought it had pretty large temp swings. I pretty much stick to Hodgdon Extreme powders now. The speeds some of you are getting with VV is impressive, not to mention some of your groups. Great shooting.
I've done some temp testing with 10 shot groups in 29°-88°F with N565 in my 6.5 PRC, and have it calculated out to .77fps/1°F for my temp factor. It's been very reliable since I got my AB profile trued up in my rangefinder.
 
It’s currently cheaper than Hogdon also. Which has only recently been the case. VV used to be more expensive. But Hogdon increased their prices quite a bit, and VV stayed the same.
VV was supposed to have a price hike in August, haven't priced any since but I expected it to be back in line or more expensive than hodgdon.
 
VV was supposed to have a price hike in August, haven't priced any since but I expected it to be back in line or more expensive than hodgdon.
I actually haven’t checked recently. I bought 60lbs of it two months ago and it was a pretty substantial savings over Hogdon at the time
 
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