Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles H 4895 "reduced loads"??

I used IMR (DuPont ) powders back when I started loading back in the late 60s. A friend of mine who at that time was in his late 30s got me into reloading when I started going to Texas deer hunting with him on a ranch down around Boerne Texas. At that time you could buy surplus military powder (IMR) for a song. 4895 and 4831 were what we used and pretty much loaded everything we shot with those two powders. If I remember right we paid 16$ for 8# or something like that. Of course primers were 3$ a brick and bullets were 7or8$ a box of 100. Good times for sure!😢 Even though Hodgdon has bought IMR...I still use it.

Thanks for posting Seafire. I had mentioned a reduced H4895 .270 win load in the other and your post prompted me to look it up. My goal was a mid range practice load with a 110 grain bullet. I was targeting the 2400 FPS velocity range. That required about a 30% reduction from Hodgdon's max load of 47.5 grains.
Here are my 2011 results:

Thrown charges

34.0 grains 2375 fps, 2340 fps, 2342 fps
35.0 grains 2359 fps, 2331 fps, 2372 fps
36.0 grains 2428 fps, 2406 fps, 2437 fps

Interestingly my notes indicate F215 primers, I had a lot of those to use up after selling my .300 Win Mag. Accuracy was 1 MOA at 100 yards per notes. These were Sierras, IIRC the Hornadys shot tighter.