Hah! I'm in good company here.

You can't fault 2.7/2.8 of BE for anything.

VVN310 will probably burn a little cleaner, it's just as fast.

WST is excellent. I use 2.5 gr.

I have lately been experimenting with HP-38/WW-231. I tried 3.5gr and found it very accurate, and thought it had roughly the same recoil as BE, but softer in the hand. However, it's been a couple months since I've shot 2.8 of BE, and I've shot a lot of .44 Mag between then and now, so my Recoil-o-Meter is a bit off. I'm going shooting tomorrow, I'll bring some 3.5/HP-38 and some 3.2/HP-38 (the lightest I can get my measure to throw), and some 2.8/BEs, and try and post back. I may wind up needing Wise_A Sr to judge.

Speaking of...I thought I'd try and get rid of my experimental pound of HP-38, and now I'm enjoying it in .45 ACP and .38 Spl immensely.

When I tried to get rid of that "awful" 700-X I hated in .38 Spl and .45...I discovered it was amazing in my 9mm target loads.

My powder collection refuses to shrink.