Only the maker of that powder knows why they stopped producing it. It may be poor sales or it may be so close to Rel-15 buring rate they decided not to produce both. I guess the only way to know is contact the powder maker and ask them.
I just found some and my .308 blr immediately "thanked" me. It is a great shooting clean, clean burning powder. Also, handloading magazine said it does very nice in the 30-06 for accuracy but at less velocity.
I tried varget, re15 and 748 in that .308 and nothing shined like re 12.
what caliber are you loading?
Posts: 2002 | Location: central wi | Registered: 13 September 2002
RE-12 and RE-15 are not close in their burning rate in .30 calibers at least. RE=12 can get you in trouble very fast just like Bluedot if you are not very carefull. Just my $.02 worth. Dan
I contacted Alliant tech support today. The rep told me something to the effect that they had to change the location of their facility which was producing rlr 12 and were never satisfied with different equipments ability to correctly reproduce it. He says it was a good powdwer and that he wishes they still had it and that it should be fine if properly stored.
I found 2 lbs for 10 bucks each and snatched it up. Ill be trying it in a 35 Remington and maybe a 300 savage with smaller bullets.
Posts: 10197 | Location: Tooele, Ut | Registered: 27 September 2001
Alliant doesn't actually make R12 - it was produced by an outside vendor, and, as alluded to earlier, the vendor cannot duplicate the previous formulation, so, they dropped it. Bummer. It works superbly in my 223, 260 w/120's, 7-08 w/139's, 308/150's, 358 and 350 RMag with 200's. Nice small grains to run through the measure easily, and, always one of the top accuracy producers in the rifles I've tried it in
It's pretty quick, probably around I3031's rate, and, as Dan in Wa noted, you can run pressures up pretty fast.
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Posts: 1483 | Location: Windber, PA | Registered: 24 January 2001
