My first venture with H110, on my reloads, wasn't a good one.
The powder was horribly filthy on the chamber and the brass. A lot of unburned powder that made a couple of the brass cases stick to the chamber wall. Plus, the loads that I shot were kinda "punky" and didn't have much recoil.
I never load more than 15 rounds before testing them out at the range, so I don't know what the hell I was doing by loading up 2 boxes (100 rounds). I had to get the RCBS bullet puller out and unload them all to save the bullets and primers.
I purchased some IMR-4227, loaded up 10 rounds and shot them to see how they'd run in the rifle and get a ball park idea of their accuracy. Turns out, it was awesome!!!
I shot them off of a sand bag on the door of my truck and had a consistent group at 22 yards of 3", which isn't a good or tight group at that distance, but I was checking for consistency. I'm sure I'll get better results at the range on a full bench. Snappy recoil and a clean chamber were the other 2 good perks.
27 grains of this powder shows a 2005 fps, by Hodgdon's reloading data and with a 180 bullet, that'll get the job done.
I thought I'd better post this result for others using H110, as this was my first time using it. H110 is a very very small flake type powder and it didn't seem to entirely burned up, which caused a lot of fowling. IMR powders are a tubular type of powder and what doesn't get burnt down the barrel, gets pushed out of the barrel and not left behind to fowl the rifle action.
I've used many other brands and types of powders without this much fuss.
This also made me question the age of this particular can of powder. The price tag was still on the can and it was $15. A 1 lb. can is $60 these days. Hard to say how long ago this powder was purchased.
