223-75 Amax- H4895

[racinready300ex]

Anyone got a load that works pretty well for them?

Also, I noticed hodgdon's page says max load for 4895 with 75 grain bullet is 25 gr. My Hornady manual says 23.3 gr. That's a pretty big difference. What do your manuals say?

[racinready300ex]

I think I figured out the difference in load data. The hornady book is max load for ARs, the hodgdon load is for bolt guns.

[GaCop]

The following load shoots well in my 1/8 twist Sinarms barrel Savage: (.576" group) Lapua brass neck sized after fire forming, BR-4 primer, RE-15/23.4 grains, 75 gr A-max seated .011" off the lands. My chrono'd velocity for this load showed 2795 fps on my old PACT PC2.

[chestsprings]

in my 1:9 Shilen, 26 inch,

I use Win.cases, & Rem. 7 1/2 primers, with the 75 gr. A-Max's seated .015 off the lands.

using either 24.5 grs. of Varget, or 24.5 grs. of H-4895, I get comparable accuracy.

I worked up to both these loads in 1/2 gr., & they are safe in my rifle, maybe not yours.

the H-4895 gives me approx. 90 to 100 FPS more vel. than the Varget with the same load, but as far as accuracy, hard to tell which is more accurate.

[ctrout]

My 12FV 1:9 twist shoots the 75gr Amax into .75" at 100 yards. Lake City 08 brass trimmed to 1.750", 23.6gr H4895, CCI 400, 2.875" OAL. This OAL is very long and I don't remember if I feed these through the mag or single load them. Velocity is 2850fps out of the 26" barrel. I got great groups from 24gr of powder too at a velocity of 2891 but the 23.6gr load was the OCW (if you are familiar with OCW load development.)

[rshew]

I have had excellent results with this load at 200yrds :

Varget 23.8
CL 1.750
COL 2.500
CCI 450

.680" group

I will be using this load in a competition at the end of the month

[racinready300ex]

I went to the range yesterday, I only took 10 rounds with the amax's. I had worked to load up some at 100 yards, but they didn't group as well as my 70 gr berger VLDs. One 5 shot group measured about 6" Hor. and 3 " vert. And the other had 3 rounds in 3" and one round dropped low and to the right making the total group 13". This was at 600 yard, with winds around 15 mph gusting to 20+.

I don't know what happened to the one that dropped. I could have loaded it wrong, the wind my have gotten it, or I might have just used the wrong mill dot. I deff. need to do some more testing with the Amax's at that range.