Product Overview and Introduction

Achieve world-class accuracy, extreme velocity consistency, and match-grade performance in popular bottleneck rifle cartridges with Hodgdon Varget Smokeless Gun Powder. As one of the most celebrated and trusted extruded rifle propellants in the reloading industry, Varget has earned a legendary reputation among benchrest competitors, high-power rifle shooters, and precision hunters for its exceptional versatility and unmatched stability.

Whether you are handloading heavy match bullets for the .223 Remington / 5.56 NATO, crafting precision long-range hunting rounds for the .308 Winchester, or developing custom loads for cartridges like the .22-250 Remington, .243 Winchester, and .30-06 Springfield, Hodgdon Varget delivers phenomenal group sizes, clean combustion, and supreme reliability across any shooting environment.

Extreme Extruded Technology and Temperature Insensitivity

Engineered with Hodgdon’s proprietary Extreme Extruded technology, Varget offers distinct performance advantages that elevate it above conventional rifle powders:

• Unmatched Temperature Insensitivity: Chemically formulated to resist extreme velocity shifts caused by ambient weather changes, ensuring identical point-of-impact and zero pressure spikes whether you are shooting in freezing winter competitions or blistering summer matches.

• Optimized Burn Rate: Tailored precisely for medium-to-large capacity rifle cases, providing a smooth, progressive pressure curve that accelerates projectiles to maximum velocities with exceptional precision.

• Exceptional Metering Uniformity: Precision-cut extruded grains flow smoothly and predictably through volumetric powder measures for consistent charge weights round after round.

• Clean-Burning Composition: Minimizes barrel fouling and carbon buildup, allowing for extended strings of precision shooting between cleanings without sacrificing accuracy.

The Professional Choice for Precision Rifle Handloaders

When your competitive shooting discipline or precision long-range hunting regimen demands an uncompromising, temperature-stable propellant that extracts absolute match-grade accuracy from calibers like .223 Remington and .308 Winchester, Hodgdon Varget stands out as the ultimate industry standard for the reloading bench.

Key Features and Benefits

• Match-Grade Specialist: Purpose-built to deliver tightest-possible group sizes and supreme velocity consistency in popular rifle calibers.

• Extreme Weather Stability: Eliminates velocity fluctuations and pressure spikes across changing seasonal temperatures.

• Versatile Application: Proven performance across a massive spectrum of cartridges from .223 Rem up to .30-06 Springfield.

• Available Container Sizes: Offered in convenient 1-pound canisters and bulk 8-pound containers to suit any reloading volume.

Specifications

• Product Type: Rifle Smokeless Propellant / Gun Powder

• Brand: Hodgdon

• Product Line: Varget (Extreme Extruded Family)

• Powder Type: Medium-Burn Rate Extruded Rifle Propellant

• Primary Applications: .223 Remington, .308 Winchester, .22-250 Remington, .243 Winchester, .30-06 Springfield, and Precision Rifle Cartridges

• Container Options: 1 lb and 8 lb Packages

• Storage Requirement: Store in a cool, dry place away from heat, sparks, and open flames