Hodgdon PRESS RELEASE intro for new powders

[The_Shadow]

Hodgdon PRESS RELEASE intro for new powders
November 13, 2016
IMR® Legendary Powders Releases New IMR Family of Powders
IMR Legendary Powders is excited to announce a new family of shotshell and pistol propellants.
We believe it takes a Legendary Powder brand like IMR to improve this series of legendary powders. This series of five popular burn-rate powders covers an extremely wide range of shotshell and pistol cartridges, utilizing new, green technology. Each powder was designed to match current shotshell bushing charts, so the handloader will already have the appropriate bushings available for each load. This new technology burns clean, providing accurate metering and top performance characteristics. All of these powders are REACH compliant, meaning these propellants are not harmful to the environment.
IMR Target™ The first powder in this new family is a fast-burning pistol powder. This fine-grained, small-flake pistol powder meters superbly, providing very precise loads in even the smallest pistol cartridges like the .25 ACP!
IMR Red™ The second powder in this new family was designed to be an efficient, clean-burning, 12-gauge target powder. IMR Red also performs nicely in various lead pistol target loads, such as match competition loads and Cowboy reduced loads.
IMR Green™ The third in this new family is slightly slower-burning than IMR Red, making it an ideal Trap Handicap powder and soon a favorite with Sporting Clays enthusiasts.
IMR Unequal™ IMR Unequal combines small-sized flakes for uniform metering in all pistol applications and its burn speed accommodates a wide range of shotshell and pistol cartridges.
IMR Blue™ The slowest burn speed of the five new propellants, IMR BLUE, has excellent application for heavy 12-gauge 2-¾-inch, 3-inch and 3-1/2-inch field loads.
These new powders will be available in January 2017 at quality reloading powder dealers everywhere. IMR Target and IMR Blue will be available in one-pound (1lb), four-pound (4lb) and eight-pound (8lb) containers and IMR Red, IMR Green and IMR Unequal in 14-ounce (14 oz), four-pound (4lb) and eight-pound (8lb) containers.
Complete load data for these versatile and useful propellants is accessible on the Hodgdon Reloading Data Center at http://www.hodgdonreloading.com/

[The_Shadow]

here is the data listed for the IMR UNEQUAL Powder




This data for Power Pistol and yields tend to match up to that shown with IMR Unequal...
Bullet type & weight   Powder Type Weight  in gr. (Max) Velocity (fps) Primer Case Brand Pressure    OAL
Power Pistol
135 Gr   Power Pistol   10.6   1530   FED 150   NA   35,600 PSI   1.250"
150 JHP   Power Pistol   9.7   1415   FED 150   NA   35,600 PSI   1.250"
155 LEAD   Power Pistol   9.5   1320   FED 150   NA   33,000 PSI   1.250"
180 JHP   Power Pistol   8.7   1240   FED 150   NA   34,900 PSI   1.250"
180 LEAD   Power Pistol   8.7   1235   FED 150   NA   34,700 PSI   1.250"
190 JFP   Power Pistol   8.2   1200   FED 150   NA   35,900 PSI   1.250"
200 FMJ   Power Pistol   7.7   1145   FED 150   NA   35,600 PSI   1.260"

[my_old_glock]

They are suppose to copy Alliant powder.

Red Dot, Green Dot, Blue Dot, Unique. Some people think Target will copy Bullseye

They also have a 300 BO powder.

Press Release Date 11-3-16

Hodgdon® releases CFE BLK

Hodgdon, The Brand That's True®, is excited to announce the release of CFE BLK™, a new Spherical powder specifically formulated for the .300 AAC Blackout cartridge. CFE BLK joins the Hodgdon CFE™ family of CFE 223™ and CFE Pistol™.

This new powder provides full function of AR-type rifles throughout the range of bullet weights, and is perfect for those subsonic
Copper Fouling Eliminator, Ball Powder for Great Metering
Copper Fouling Eliminator, Ball Powder for Great Metering

reduced loads. In addition to being the perfect solution for the .300 Blackout, it performs beautifully in many smaller capacity cartridges, in particular, varmint cartridges such as the .17 Hornet, .17 Ackley Hornet, .218 Bee, .221 Fireball and many more. It also yields top performance in the 6.8 Remington SPC and the 7.62X39 MM Russian cartridge. This fine powder meters like a dream and leaves no copper residue, extending accuracy for longer shooting periods, and making clean-up quick and easy. It is truly a remarkable new propellant!

[The_Shadow]

I have thought the same thing, but it will need further study to see.  I just wrote about this to one of the forum members that ATK sold of some of its holdings of the sporting goods and these changes could be a result.  Remember all of those (Red Dot, Green Dot, Blue Dot, Unique, Herco and Bullseye) powders were Hercules products in the past.  (all classic powders)

[Pablo]

Anything for Blue in 10mm?

Very cool!!!

[The_Shadow]

Info about the burn rates in this new chart
http://www.hodgdon.com/PDF/Burn%20Rates%20-%202015-2016.pdf

[ragsflh]

looks like more new powder to try

[The_Shadow]

Last night I managed to get a FB guy to take a picture of the "NEW" IMR Target power, it is a flake powder and the flakes are said to be a little larger than Bullseye.





Hoping to gather more pictures or samples soon of the other powders to add to my collection...

[The_Shadow]

Shot Show 2017 video for the new powders

[The_Shadow]

New Burn Rate Chart from Hodgdon  http://www.imrpowder.com/PDF/Burn%20Rates%20-%202015-2016.pdf

[BillinOregon]

Wonder what that CFE BLK would do in the .30 Herrett.