Reload Swiss RS is celebrating this year’s IWA&Outdoor Classics with another world first. At Europe’s biggest hunting and sport shooting show, the Nitrochemie Wimmis AG brand is introducing its new RS76 rifle powder.
Newly developed, the RS76 is a universal powder for assembling rifle ammunition. It is suitable for multiple calibres, including .338 Lapua Magnum, 7mm Remington Magnum, .338 Norma Magnum and .300 Norma Magnum. America’s Special Operations Command (US SOCOM) is currently evaluating the latter two, for Nitrochemie an encouraging sign of government interest in the new product.
Ever since its market launch five years ago, Nitrochemie Wimmis AG with its top-notch Reload Swiss RS products has focused on becoming a full-spectrum supplier of propellant powder – from small-calibre pistol applications to large magnum assemblies. RS76 is now the thirteenth powder in the company’s product range.
The RS76 bridges the gap between its established, tried-and-tested RS70 and RS80 powders. As developer Reload Swiss RS Dominik Antenen explains, “the RS80 was ideal for the popular .338 Lapua Magnum with 300-grain projectiles. But when it was used with the equally popular 250-grain projectile, the results were no longer quite so good.” After consulting with Reload Swiss RS importers, the company decided to resolve this issue with help of the newly developed RS76. “The objective was to pass on the good genes of the RS70 and RS80 to the RS76.” In recent years the famous shooting competition in Bisley was won with the RS70, resulting in two European championship titles in the F Class, i.e. the rifle class. The RS80 also enjoys a robust reputation among competition shooters at ranges of 600 metres and over. “With this in mind, we endowed the RS76 with a good pressure and velocity ratio, sensible temperature independence and a de-copperizing additive”, continues Antenen, noting that “it goes almost without saying that we included a muzzle flash suppressor in the package as well as the best-possible stabilizer”.
The first batch of RS76 powder is currently being filled, and will reach the shops in the second quarter of 2019. The new powder is available in the accustomed 1-kg can and 10-kg drum.
IWA&Outdoor Classics takes place 8-11 March 2019 in Nuremburg, Germany. Reload Swiss will be on hand in Hall 7 at Stand 204.
Swiss? LMFAO When they fight a war I’ll buy.
The Swiss live by the old saying “si vis pacem, para bellum”.
Yeah, it’s not like the Swiss know anything about small arms, y’know? Aside from being the people who essentially invented the cupro-nickel FMJ bullet back in the 1880s, and who fielded a cartridge that was the ballistic equivalent to the 7.62 NATO well before we decided that would be a good idea.
Swiss small arms may appear to be idiosyncratic and are almost always designed to meet their exact needs, but they’re always worth paying attention to. Their arms industry has been on the cutting edge of things since just about the beginning of industrialization, and it takes a complete ignoramus to even suggest otherwise.
Not to mention that the Swiss are mostly out of the war-making game because they were actually a little too damn good at it, after having provided mercenaries to most of the royal houses of Europe in the centuries before they went neutral. The Swiss Guards in the French Revolution died nearly to a man in a forlorn attempt to hold back the mob. Their military traditions go back a lot further than the average American apparently grasps. It wasn’t that long ago that Swiss mercenaries were the terror of Europe, as well as the acknowledged masters of the battlefield. Then, there’s the militia tradition that we owe them…