I've been trying different powder out that I normally can not get my hands on. I had the opportunity to pick a number of different brands and grades of powder, last month on a shopping spree.

The last couple days I have been testing American Pioneer Powder 3f. I was under the impression it would react a lot like Pinnacle 3f but I could not be more wrong. I tried it in over six different rifles total.

So far the powder did poor in the conical department with a couple conical rifles. I would rate it at moderate accuracy with three different sabot rifles. In fact I was trying the same loads that Pinnacle produced excellent accuracy with, and discovered the powder did not behave at all the same in the rifles Pinnacle does.

Today to finish off the pound I got out three traditional rifles. I was sure that with roundball it would behave better. Again, not only was the accuracy not there, but misfires and hang fires were very common. I then suspected it might be the caps. So I changed from CCI to RWS 1075 caps. Still the misfires with two different rifles. So to finally prove it was the powder I got out some Goex. The Goex was perfect for the ignition and accuracy returned in both rifles.

So overall I am not real impressed with American Pioneer 3f. I am sure some of you have had better results with it then I have. Just thought I would post my results.