I hope so! I've been ecstatic with N120 in my 30 Major for a long time. I hope they don't screw it up. We are too small a market to carry much weight wit a powder maker. Well...maybe not the case with Lou..but as a whole, we are a tiny percentage of their sales. I doubt any changes are brought for us but rather for some other reason that mostly matters to their bottom line. I hope I'm wrong or that the changes are a positive for us and the bulk of their customers.Gonna be good stuff!!
As long as you can get it, and not like N570Gonna be good stuff!!
You know Mr. Majestic, that is a dang good idea! N150 is in the same burn rate range as Varget / RL-15. N160 is a mite slower than H4350. That is a good spread betwixt the two. A powder right about like the "old / discontinued" IMR 4007 would be just about perfect! The numeric designation N155 would work just fine! You need to be hired on their board!Or an N-115..
Hmmm! Yes, most other good options are slower or they are considerably faster. A N115 would be interesting in that cartridge.Or an N-115..
I think I read they are going to add an anti fouling agent.So will they phase out the old formulation?
... but ALL of their NEW powders are the same "old" ones BUT made like RL-16 and RL-23! Makes me wonder if they are not coming from the same powder manufacturer??
I hope they leave the old stuff alone and just add to the line.
Probably can’t do that and continue to sell products manufactured with ingredients that are being prohibited in many countries. Why so many new powders have been introduced over the past two, three years.
KevinThomas might have something to contribute to this thread. That new entity (Capstone Group) marketing Lapua, Berger and VV here IS who he works for after all.
Thanks for your comments Kevin..I didn't say this earlier but I've been using n120 since 2007. It has been remarkable in every aspect. Lot to lot variances seemed nil...until the last batch from 2017. It seems a bit different and not in a good way. I still have not chonoed it but it's not shooting like every other lot. Any ideas? I'm talking over 10 years and thousands upon thousands of rounds with zero discernible differences until now. It may be fine but will need more fine tuning if it can perform the way all those others did for so long.Oh, and Dusty, their powders were already EU compliant so there wouldn’t be any changes in their basic composition. The problem goes in the other direction; there’s a number of powders commonly used in the USA that can’t be imported or sold to the European market due to the presence of chemicals like DNT and some others that th EU frowns upon.