American pioneer powder

[stringtalker]

Does anyone use this powder, if so, how do you like it?

 

[Trapper John]

I shot it back when it had just come out and was called Clean Shot powder. It did fine. I never had any issues out of it. Accuracy was fine and it cleaned up easily. I can't comment on how it performs now. Unless they changed something I assume it's still fine.

 

[FrontierGander]

Its one of the lower end powders and has a pretty big learning curve to it.

Its best if you have either a really tight fitting sabot, or you off set that and go with a heavy projectile.

Once you load the powder, you want to COMPRESS it. It will easily compress 1/2" and that makes a huge difference in how it groups. Don't compress it, forget any accuracy whatsoever.

After learning all the tricks, I could shoot some great groups with the powder. One year I had a little over 16lbs and loved the stuff. Super easy clean up, consistent, consistent FPS if you were consistent in your cleaning/loading practices.

 

[tasaman]

Shot it. Did not group well for me. Blackhorn 209 is best besides smokeless.

 

[FrontierGander]

believe it or not, when it came to pellets, the APP/Shockeys gold pellet gave me the best accuracy I could obtain from a pellet. I've had some that barely lit off but that was before we knew how to clean the carbon build up out of our breech plugs properly.

 

[MachDR]

I have not shot APP but have a can I am going to try. That said I do have and shoot Blackmz which is supposed to be the same stuff. I like it, Easy clean up, lights easily (Powder) shoots as well for me as any other name powder and not as corrosive as pyrodex/ black powder. YMMV