I load a few cartridges where 3031 would be a fine powder, but I like to load straight from a powder measure and 3031 is like little Lincoln Logs. For my applications I like the shorter cut extruded powders like 4895, 4320, Varget, RL15 and N140.
Since the time of that post I have done a bunch of loading with 3031 straight from the powder measure into 308 Winchester cases. I got over worrying about crunchiness through the measure when I got small groups over and over again.
