.243 reloading questions

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Adam Daugherty

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Plan to reload 95 grain hornady sst bullets. The factory loads from hornady in this bullet shoot very well out of 700 Rem ADL. I have about beat my brains out looking at Hornady manual and Lyman manual to decide on what powder to buy. Lyman lists H4831 as most accurate load then I research favorite loads on the web and lots of combos not even listed as an option in either manual folks really like. Question is what would be a good overall powder for me to buy to reload 95 gr SST using Remington 9.5 Primers?
Thanks
 
Adam Daugherty said:
Plan to reload 95 grain hornady sst bullets. The factory loads from hornady in this bullet shoot very well out of 700 Rem ADL. I have about beat my brains out looking at Hornady manual and Lyman manual to decide on what powder to buy. Lyman lists H4831 as most accurate load then I research favorite loads on the web and lots of combos not even listed as an option in either manual folks really like. Question is what would be a good overall powder for me to buy to reload 95 gr SST using Remington 9.5 Primers?
Thanks
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The problem with 4831 is the burn rate. Depending on your barrel length and a few other things, you might not reach the full velocity potential of your combination using it, even though accuracy might be good. Most useable loads with 4831 in a 243 using less than 100 grn bullets will be quite compressed.

Hense, the use of a little faster powder, such as 4350.
 
Just got the 243 baCK

Hi Adam. I only recently received back from the rifle smith my late fathers .243 I had it rubuilt just under 17lb as a light gun for 500 fly. Previously Dad used Reloader #17 in it with good results. When I have done some load development on it I will let you know what I settle on. Jpeg attached.
Andy.
 

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Is this rifle being shot at paper or critters?
If paper Hornady bullets will be fine. If hunting I would recommend Nosler Accubonds, Swift Sciroccos, or Barnes Tipped Triple Shocks. H-4831, Hybred-100, H4350, all work well on coyotes, deer, antelope.
For paper and coyotes I would select 105-107 grain target bullets from Sierra or Berger.
Pretty easy to run then 3100-3200 fps with .5 moa.
Nat Lambeth
 
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