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N310 As Replacement for Clays


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I am looking at N310 as a substitute for Clays. Solo 1000 and Clay Dot are unobtanium. I see VV N310 more available. How is this powder compared to Clays, in recoil and cleanliness? I know it costs considerably more, but at this point I don't care. Although the Clays line of powder is back in production by ADI, it is to be phased out this year in favor of a new line of powders. I don't know if any of the current production is even being exported from Austrailia to the U.S..

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Gary I have used a lot of N310 in 45 with lead bullets. It is very clean and accurate in my guns. I recently switched to N320 just so I would only have to buy one powder for all my 9, 40 and 45 guns.

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check out alliant clay dot, if you can find it, it's more or less the same thing as Clays from what i've experimented with.

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Or at least the 2nd sentence.

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check out alliant clay dot, if you can find it, it's more or less the same thing as Clays from what i've experimented with.

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Or at least the 2nd sentence.

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glanced right through it.

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I have had good luck with e3 in 45. It's fairly cheap and usually available, and 3.8 gr under a 200gr SWC has been my most accurate load out of my HK USP expert. It doesn't meter as well as solo 1000, clay dot or VV310, but does well enough.

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I find N310 to be clean burning and very accurate in .45 but the recoil characteristics between it and Clays to be quite different. I was actually surprised by the difference, not what I was expecting. I would be very interested in what you find if you are used to shooting Clays. Please come back and let us know what you think.

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I've used N310 in .45 ACP for several years now, and have no plans to switch. Very clean powder (as all VV's seem to be). It's a little pricier than some of the other options, but hard to beat IMO. As a note on the cleanliness of it, I have Dillon powder hoppers that have never been emptied of some flavor of VV powder since I've had them (several years), and they look brand new still - no discoloration at all. If I dumped them out, you'd have a hard time telling they weren't brand new.

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Jut last Sunday I loaded up 25 rounds with 4.0 Clays behind a 200g Acme LSWC, and 25 using 4.0gr of N310 and the same LSWC. They Chrono'd 836 and 829 respectively, so pretty close.

N310 was a bit more accurate, but other than that...

Since I am long on Clays, I will use it and only use the N310 when I need the extra accuracy.

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A few days after my original post I was offered some Nobel Sport Vectan BA10 powder. This is a French powder that I believe is relatively new in this country. This is a very fine cut stick powder that I just got the chance to test recently. There is not that much independant loading data out there for the Nobel Sport line of powders. Using a 230 gr cast RN @ 1.250 OAL, and WW LP primers, out of a 5" 1911, I got 3.8 gr = 783fps, 3.7gr= 761fps, and 3.6gr = 745fps. Shot to shot variation was extremely low, often within 5 fps for 5 round strings. I went with the 3.6gr load. Accuracy and POI are similar to Clays, and so is the perceived recoil. I burns just as clean also.

This powder comes in 1.1 pound, (1/2 kilo) cans and is relatively inexpensive compared to N310. The factory compares it's burn rate and performance characteristics to N310.

I mixed seperate magazines of this load, and my old 3.7gr of Clays at a local USPSA match, and could not tell the difference. Looks like I have found a winner.

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