Thread: .22 hornet

Originally Posted by grandpamac

Greetings @GWH and all,
I made up some reduced loads, years ago, for my .223 which my son used for shooting Hares. I don't have my load notes for the now gone rifle but I pulled some apart yesterday to find what is probably 15 grains of IMR4198 behind the 45 grain projectile. I can't find where I got the load from. Your load of 14 grains with the 55 grain looks so similar so I wonder if you remember where it came from as I have come up empty from my data scources.
Regards Grandpamac.

I have got all of my IMR4198 reduced load info from a chap in the US, that has done extensive work with reduced loads in many cartridges from 223 up thru to 3006, using IMR4198, RE7 and a few other powders of similar burn rates. I have personally used his recommendations with 4198 in 223, 243, 6.5CM 7mm08. The IMR 4198 and Re7 is the perfect powder for this job.

If you search for "seafire reduced loads" and the cartridge you are interested in, and look for any posts from a member called 'seafire' on the 24hourcampfire forum.

With 223, he says 14gr of imr4198 behind any projectile weight that is suitable for your barrel twist will work fine, I tried 14gr upto 16gr from memory and the 14gr shot tiny groups, the other charges were well acceptable, but its hard to argue when a load shoots groups in the .2's at 100 yds.

I must try it with 40gr bullets.