VIHTAVUORI - N130 8lb Smokeless Rifle Powder

Best powder for 30 br thats available

This has been my go to powder for years competing in NBRSA short range benchrest matches here at the Bench Rest Rifle Club of St. Louis.

Excellent product and great service

used in 6Br for varminting and with hornady 65 gr vmax it prints one hole. product meters well in both rcbs chargemaster and harrels powder measure. consistant in winter practice and summer prairie shoots. hope they dont drop this product from their menu.

I have used this with .223 loads for bullets 55 gr through 69 gr with good success. Efficient, consistent, meters well. But it's relatively very expensive (judged before the recent universal shortages) and now very hard to find. My principal concern is that every load on my shelf using N130 that is over ten years old (the load itself) has corroded from the inside, ruining the cases and bullets. The corrosion first showed up externally as a cloudy case, eventually resulting in green pits and corrosion on the brass. The brass became extremely brittle, with every case neck splitting on firing. I bought that batch of powder about 20 years ago (when it came in 1 kg plastic containers), and I'm hoping the corrosion is limited to that one particular lot (since I have other containers of it waiting to be used.