I just had shoulder surgery and I'll be out of any serious shooting for a while (even shooting offhand). I've built my son and wife some pretty cool .223s lately, but I've made them heavy (wooden stock AR for her, 24" barrel for him) so that they would not have as much felt recoil. I need something to pass the time and coming up with some interesting loads can occupy that.
I had good luck with a non-hot recipe of 22.8gr of H335 going against @Butter 's bullets. That's 2.4 grains down from my normal hot load with other 55 grain bullets. It is noticeably softer than my ammo.
But I was doing some reading and stumbled on that H4895 is considered a reduced load powder- Hodgdon says it can use starting loads of 60% of max for powders they list, and .223 is one of them.
Has anyone tried reduced loads with 4895? Doing more reading, and having actual recipes, reduced loads can be done for larger bore rifles with Accurate 5744. Oddly, this thread here alleges that 5744 was a culprit in a recent detonation but seems suspect.
I had good luck with a non-hot recipe of 22.8gr of H335 going against @Butter 's bullets. That's 2.4 grains down from my normal hot load with other 55 grain bullets. It is noticeably softer than my ammo.
But I was doing some reading and stumbled on that H4895 is considered a reduced load powder- Hodgdon says it can use starting loads of 60% of max for powders they list, and .223 is one of them.
Has anyone tried reduced loads with 4895? Doing more reading, and having actual recipes, reduced loads can be done for larger bore rifles with Accurate 5744. Oddly, this thread here alleges that 5744 was a culprit in a recent detonation but seems suspect.