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Message started by musketjon on Mar 1st, 2017 at 5:46am

Title: Re: IMR 4895 and 155 A Max Bullets
Post by psteinmayer on Aug 4th, 2017 at 12:35pm
Can't remember off the top of my head... but it was last year and I'm pretty sure it was a Garand.  He stated the load used, and I bounced his stated load against the Lyman manual and it did indeed state that load.  I then bounced it against the Hornady data, and also just for a sanity check, went to the Hogdon online chart and the load was beyond hot as compared to both sources.

I've looked at other loads in the Lyman manual, and I feel that some of them are pretty hot too.  IIRC, Lyman stated a good starting point for 4350 in 30-40 with a 220 gr bullet was around 40.0, working up to 45 or so (again, no charts in front of me so I'm going off memory... and if I'm stating wrong, then my apologies).  IMHO, anything over 41 gets into the nervous zone for me!

now I'm not trying to bash Lyman... and there is very good data there.  All I'm saying is don't rely on their data as a sole source.  Just the same, I DO double check data in the Hornday manual also against Speer, Nosler and others.  I believe in doing my do-diligence, and always err on the side of safety!!!

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