I see Alliant brought out some new powders a while back. RL 23 being one of them. Now I see a couple more, RL 16 and RL 26. Can't find some of the older RL powders on dealers shelves so I can't imagine finding any of the new powders. Anyway the RL 16 is supposed to be slightly faster than RL 17. I was thinking it may be good in the 35 Whelan and the 9.3x62. I haven't found any data on the Alliant web site for this powder. Rl 23 ?? Is this just an improvement on RL 22 or is it a totally different powder?? Same with RL 26, is it an improved RL 25 or a new powder? I see a bit of reloading data in the 270 WSM with the RL 26. Looks impressive. Anyone seen or used some of this new powder?

Yes I have used Reloader-23 in the 8mm Remington Magnum and got very good results at long range.
Very clean burning and I think it has an edge over RL22 for the bigger cases. A good friend of my is using it in his .338 Lapua Mag and swears by the powder.
I tried the RL-26 as well but found it really likes a heavy bullet of 250 or more grains. I'm limited to finding bullets of 220 max now days and have no real data for you on this powder.

I'm using RL26 in a 243AI with 105gr Hornady Match HPBT. It is amazing! I'm getting over 3300fps with a 26" Hart barrel. I have shot this load in temperatures from 76f to 92f with no variation in performance. There is also little to no copper when cleaning. RL26 is the only one of the new Alliant powders that I have used.

I surely hope I can get 3300 FPS with my 240 Weatherby shooting 105 grain Berger VLD out of a 30" tube using Reloader 26.

In Europe we would by happy if we could get ANY of the old powders.

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Originally posted by Rapidrob:
Yes I have used Reloader-23 in the 8mm Remington Magnum and got very good results at long range.
Very clean burning and I think it has an edge over RL22 for the bigger cases. A good friend of my is using it in his .338 Lapua Mag and swears by the powder.
I tried the RL-26 as well but found it really likes a heavy bullet of 250 or more grains. I'm limited to finding bullets of 220 max now days and have no real data for you on this powder.

What bullet are you using in the Big 8? I have shot mine at 1000yds using the 200Gr NAB and 7828 SSC. I am interested in trying RL 23.

I can find no other information about RL 16 other than it is a new powder on the market. Is it even on the market yet ? I'm thinking it may be a good powder for some medium bore rifles. In particular 35 Whelan, 35 Whelan Imp, 9.3x62 and the larger 9.3x64. Does anyone with Quickload have any suggestions on some loads in these or other calibres and possible velocities.

snowman:

There is no RL-16 in QL for now. Even QL doesn't work well with RL-17 (beacuse of some special properties of this powder), so I am not sure about RL-16 too. But maybe RL-16 will be completely different type of powder made by different company.

Jiri

Jiri Maybe someone can correct me but I understand that RL 15, RL19,RL22 and RL 25 are all made in Sweden. Rl 17 is a new type of powder that is made in Switzerland. RL 16, RL 23 and RL26 are all made in Switzerland and are of the same family of powder as RL 17. Don't know much else about it.

23 is made in Sweden.

What about RL-33? Sweeeeeeeeeeden as well?