headednorth
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Looking to work up a new load for the M1 using a Hornady 168gr hpbt and IMR 4895. Manuals I have that list service rifle data either list powders I dont have or different bullet weights.
Poking around online I came up with 45-48 grains of imr 4895 loaded to 3.300". Same data can be used for Varget apparently.
Looking to shoot prone/sitting/offhand at 100-200 yards, keeping groups as small as possible without beating up the rifle. Just wanted to run rhe data by people to make sure its in the ballpark.
Secondary question that came up while researching...
My load for a 150 grain round is 44 grains of imr 4895. This I remember being the starting load which ended up giving me the tightest group. (I forget what the max of that trial was) So lighter bullet with a lighter charge weight than the 168 data. Odd, no?
Should I bump it up? Cycles fine, any accuracy issues are probably me and not the load I would think. Only issue I recall is I usually shoot out to 100yds and when I shot at 200 at a different club, I had to crank up on the sight a lot more than I had expected to.
Thanks.
Poking around online I came up with 45-48 grains of imr 4895 loaded to 3.300". Same data can be used for Varget apparently.
Looking to shoot prone/sitting/offhand at 100-200 yards, keeping groups as small as possible without beating up the rifle. Just wanted to run rhe data by people to make sure its in the ballpark.
Secondary question that came up while researching...
My load for a 150 grain round is 44 grains of imr 4895. This I remember being the starting load which ended up giving me the tightest group. (I forget what the max of that trial was) So lighter bullet with a lighter charge weight than the 168 data. Odd, no?
Should I bump it up? Cycles fine, any accuracy issues are probably me and not the load I would think. Only issue I recall is I usually shoot out to 100yds and when I shot at 200 at a different club, I had to crank up on the sight a lot more than I had expected to.
Thanks.