Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles Varget Data for .30-40 Krag

I've been using IMR-4064 and 150 ballistic tips for a long time. Since Varget seems to be a similar powder, but meters a lot better, I'm looking for data for Varget in a Krag with 150 gr bullets. Hodgdon's website does not have Varget data for the Krag.

http://www.adi-limited.com/handloaders-guide/index.asp

Varget is known as AR 2208 in Australia. The link above will take you to the ADI site.Let me know if you cannot access this and I will send again
rob

Thanks. I looked it up. ADI does not show AR2208 data for the Krag

Varget, 4895 and 4064 are so close that you can safely substitute Start data for any of them. Max loads might differ by a grain or so, but if you work up to well-known velocity levels for the bullet, and stop there, you can feel secure that pressures will be similar.

The Hodgdon Annual Manual for 2010 (I have an advanced copy open as we speak) has loads for 150 and 180-grain bullets with 4064 and H4895 that max within two to three grains of each other (loads for IMR4895 are lower).

If metering counts, go with W760/H414 (same stuff).
Plenty of loads on Hodgdon's website.
Will meter +-1/10 gr, Varget will not (at least in my Lyman, Redding or RCBS measures.

W780 worth a look for HEAVY bullets as it mimics 4831.

If your Krag is US military, it's a whole different world than if it's a #1 or modern High Wall. Most published loads are for the military rifle, in a modern gun it will blow by a 308, especially with big slugs.

my 30/40 Krag, I just settled with a few shooting loads I can live with for 200 yd limits..

25 grains of SR 4759 with any bullet up to 180 grain RN....

OR 30 GRAINS of RL 7, IMR or H 4198...

or 35 grains of H 322 or IMR 3031...