Originally Posted by Mule Deer
Mike,

As I've pointed out before, 7x57's vary considerably in how much powder they'll take, due to variations in throat length. Mine custom rifle was chambered with a PT&G "target" reamer with a short throat, so doesn't need as much powder to get the same velocities as most other 7x57's. I've only tried 4451 with bullets in the 160-grain range, mostly because they all shoot to the same POI in this rifle, and 45.5 grains of 4451 gets right around 2700 fps with most bullets, from a 21-inch barrel.


Thanks, John. I'm aware of your caution about the differences in throats, etc., but I was just wondering of there was some correspondence between 4451 and H4350. From your H4350 recipes in "Gack" it looks like there's about a half grain.

"An archer sees how far he can be from a target and still hit it, a bowhunter sees how close he can get before he shoots." It is certainly easy to use that same line of thinking with firearms. -- Unknown