Home Forums Reloading Varmint Rifles 75 amax loads for 223 normal

23.5 of H4895 is giving me great accuracy with the 75 Amax, 2.402" COAL. At 24 grains my primers were getting a bit cratered so I kept it at the 23.5 grn.

The Hodgdon site lists 24.5grn of H4895 as a max load, but I nnever got that far in my Ruger American.

I have a Ruger hawkeye 223rem with 1:9 twist. Will that stablize those 75gr Amax?

I have had them work in 2 different 1 in 9 guns but its marginal. It would be worth a try. If they stabilize they usually shoot well

For me (Tikka 1:8 twist) 24-25 Varget and 22 TAC shoots tiny groups.

Actually working up some 80 Amax with Varget to see WTF. Do you have 75's into the lands or jumping?

I want to give the 80s a go in my 22-250 and 223 AI.

I have tried kissing and jumping 30 thousandths. Accuracy hasn't changed much in my normal, which is a RAR.

My AI prefers them kissing the lands

I'd like to hear how the 80's act

My fast twist 22.250 and 223 both prefer the 80 A Max over the 75 AMax.... they also prefer the 75 BTHP Hornady over the 75 A Max...

Kissing 50's and 80's....

Not the 75 amax but the 75 bthp is whoopin my ass from my .223 with 1/9 twist. I'm getting 2 touching a 1 and where from 1" to 3" away.


Privi Brass, H4895, CCI400

If you can find any, AR Comp does some wonderful things in that case...with any of the 40 thru 80 grain bullets...

None of that around here.

H4895, 4064, 4198 is about it for medium burners. I can get all the 4350 or 4831 I want but I don't think they would perk up too good.

Anyway to check run-out?

Negative, I need to get me a run-out checkerizer.


My last 2 3 shot groups with the Sierra 55gr #1365 were .42 and .37.


I'm not up to snuff on run-out, will say the 75gr Hornady have/create more run-out than say the 55gr Sierra?


I've ran powder charges from 22.5grs - 24.5grs, Fed205 and CCI400, Privi Brass and Rem Brass and tried about 7 different seating depths and 2-1 seems to be the preferred pattern with this bullet.

If you take it from a statistics standpoint, what you see is 2 combinations of a possible 20, had they not been sorted.