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chris in va · September 23, 2011, 11:29 AM

IIRC, 25gr of 4895 is a compressed charge (barely) so that extra grain probably stuffed it in there good.

I'm fairly new to loading 223 and also discovered it's necessary to check more than one source of loading data. I was just going by my Lyman manual and had some really flattened primers with a mid load of 335. Come to find out it was a max charge on the powder site.

September 23, 2011, 11:29 AM	#9
chris in va Senior Member Join Date: December 26, 2004 Location: Louisville KY Posts: 13,806	IIRC, 25gr of 4895 is a compressed charge (barely) so that extra grain probably stuffed it in there good. I'm fairly new to loading 223 and also discovered it's necessary to check more than one source of loading data. I was just going by my Lyman manual and had some really flattened primers with a mid load of 335. Come to find out it was a max charge on the powder site.