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My daughters shoot a Remington Model 7 Youth with an 18.5" barrel. I loaded a Hornady 139gr SP over 34.5gr of H4895 for about 2400fps. That combo worked well for a first deer a few days ago. Our shots are generally less than 100 yards.

During a very quick workup(one shot of each) I got these velocities:
32.0 = 2169fps
33.0 = 2305fps
34.0 = 2309fps
35.0 = 2421fps
36.0 = 2488fps
37.0 = 2634fps

For practice I have loaded a 100gr Sierra HP over 32.0 gr H4895 which shoots to the same POI as my chosen load and recoil is negligible.