N-201 powder

[Dick Grosbier]

Just wondering if anybody uses this powder anymore. I have a friend who called me today and has around 30lbs in original cans mostly still sealed. I told him to put up a classified but the shipping is going to be a real pain. So I promised him I would post a thread and just see if anybody is even interested. He shot it in his PPC for years but quit going to the SS 8 or 9 years ago and that was the one time a year he shot.
Dick

 

[B J Atkinson]

I used quite a bit of N-201 back in the 1980's. It had not been imported into Australia for some time, and I was lucky to uncover about 20 cans of it at a gunshop.
In the 6PPC it shot very well with a full case of powder and 68gn bullets. Velocity from memory was around 3280fps from a 23 inch barrel.
It was not the cleanest powder that I have ever used, but it metered very well and won me a bunch of shoots.

The more modern powders have well and truly superseded N-201, but I would not be too proud to use it at club matches etc.