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Old February 5, 2013, 05:55 PM   #5
Bart B.
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Unclenick, I think Hatcher's powder in that incident was IMR4064; it metered larger spreads than IMR4895 but that year's National Match lot with it was mostly weighed, not metered. So I was told in 1966. Metered charges of IMR4895 typically shot more accurate than metered IMR4064 so the arsenals used it in 30 caliber match ammo.

You may be totally right in this. I was first told about this incident by CWO Offut Pinion in 1966; a retired USN warrant officer then owning a gunshop north of San Francisco. He was also on the 1956 US Olympic Team and got bronze in the free pistol match. He'd build a extra-decent match rifle if he could get a good barrel.
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