Recently moved unpacked all reloading stuff and haven't found my Hornady manual. I have the 150 fmj from we and varget powder ik that Hornady has M1 load's but can't remember what it was
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Recently moved unpacked all reloading stuff and haven't found my Hornady manual. I have the 150 fmj from we and varget powder ik that Hornady has M1 load's but can't remember what it was
The book says for varget, 42.3 for the starting load at 2400fps, 46.2 gns max load for about 2600fps.
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Varget is a little on the slow side for the M1 Garand do you have an adjustable gas plug?
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Yes I do I remembered it was a mid range load but like a dummy I didn't write it down in 2 places
Varget is a great powder for a garand. Been using it for years. About the same burn rate as 4064. It is not too slow. Once you get to a powder like 4350 that is too slow. I run 46 gr of varget under a 168 gr Sierra or Nosler at 3.30” OAL with a CCI primer. Works in all my 30-06 garands. If I am loading 150 or 155 gr bullets I generally use H4895 or 4895 as it seems to work better with the lighter bullets. But once I get to 168 or 175 I only use Varget.Quote:
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Huh, I stayed away from it because I was told it was too slow and risked bending an op rod.
Maybe I was misinformed.
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? Yea, someone told you wrong. 4895, 4064, Varget, R15, BL-C(2) and the like are in the good range. 4350, R22, 4831 would be the questionably slow powders to avoid.