97g Absolute Hammer powders

[Koda]

The Absolute Hammers thrive in faster burn rates. The minimal land area facilitates velocity that are rather surprising to me, anyways. Something between Rimshot Tac & H335 would be where I'd expect to find top performance. Big down side to the Absolute Hammers is that you have little reference data to work with & the credibility of the data available is a question mark. Rather few are comfortable going out on a limb to develop there own load data.

I too was curious how the much faster H335 would perform with mine but I pressured out reaching the same velocity Im getting with A2520 (see my post above), I would feel safe with 29gn at 2700fps except I dont see a need to give up that 100fps since Im already there with A2520 and HLVR.

You are correct there is little to no reference data on loading the Absolutes, and while reloaders should approach with caution I havent found it all that risky. Ive found with every bullet weight there is a range of starting weights in various powders that tend to average the same, I start there. Since the Absolutes will react as if they are just a little bit lighter bullet Im comfortable just starting at the average starting weight listed in most published load data for the same bullet weight. The caveat to that is I prefer if my powder is one of those listed of course. I tend to prefer Hodgdon or Nosler load data, plus Hammers user data for reference.

So far between 2 Absolutes I've handloaded I've always started way too low and wasted those precious primers to find max (pressure then back off a grain).