Comments on: Consider Alliant Reloder 26 for Magnum Cartridges

By: gene hanson

gene hanson — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 01:56:29 +0000

i have a 338 ultra magnum using a 225 gr. nosler accubond bullet. what is my best load using RL 26 powder?

By: Brushey Bill 62

Brushey Bill 62 — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 02:48:52 +0000

How BOUT a starting LOAD for RL-26 for a 26 nosler with 123 grain bullets. And a 7mm rum with with a 120 grain nosler…

By: Lamont J Littlefield

Lamont J Littlefield — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 03:18:32 +0000

Sugested starting grs.of powder for 7mm rem mag useing 160gr bullet in the rl26 powder and max load.

By: 1Topgun

1Topgun — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 19:41:36 +0000

I developed a load with Reloder 26 for my Rem 700 7mmWSM hunting rifle with a factory 24″ barrel. Hornady 162 ELD-X and 59.gr RL-26 produces 3150 fps, 5-shot ES of 8fps and 3/4 MOA. I tested it against H4350 and RL-17, and it had the best fps, ES and accuracy.

By: Donald Johnson

Donald Johnson — Sun, 11 Mar 2018 22:15:00 +0000

want to try Reloader 26 with 150 berger classic hunter have 6 cases 3 with 78.5 grains and 3 with 79 grains for 7MM STW what are your thoughts please thanks

By: Bryan Zolnikov

Bryan Zolnikov — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 23:02:52 +0000

I use RL26 with my 6 Creedmoor, 300 Winmag, and 338 Lapua Mag. It works phenomenally well in these applications:
6 CM uses 46 grains with a 115 DTAC and pushes around 3145 fp/s with sub .25MOA accuracy. No pressure signs whatsoever.
300 Winmag uses 77 grains with a Berger 215HT and pushes around 3060 fp/s with sub .25MOA accuracy. No pressure signs whatsoever.
338 Lapua loaf is still in development but the first test of 90 grains with a 250 Scenar pushes it 2930 fp/s with less than .5MOA accuracy. No pressure signs whatsoever.
I use Alliant with other cartridges after switching from using primarily Hodgdon powders and Reliant downright outperforms Hodgdon in many areas: high velocity with low pressure, great accuracy, excellent temperature stability, etc. Try it if you haven’t already!!

By: Tom Malloy

Tom Malloy — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 08:21:50 +0000

I recently completed a test of 4 powders in 7mm Rem Mag using 139 gr SST’s. RL-26 was the clear winner over RL-19, IMR-4350 and IMR-7828-SSC. I now need Alliant data for my .264 Win Mag using RL-26 over 129 gr SST’s. I’m hoping for similar results as the brass are nearly identical and both slugs are on the light side of ‘medium-weight’ for caliber. Would very much like to see the data for RL-25 in .264 Win Mag.

By: Dick

Dick — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:30:03 +0000

Looking at RL 26 for my .264 win. My first two 264 loved 63 grns off IMR 4831 with a nosler partition great accuracy at 3170 avg. But my new one gives to much pressure. Is RL 26 a good choice to try and get something close to my old load? Is there any data out there yet?

By: Kris

Kris — Fri, 31 Mar 2017 14:27:51 +0000

It works decently in 6mm’s that use 308 sized cases as well. You can pack a ton more of it into a case than you can of H4350.