Several years back I purchased a little over 13 pounds of IMR 4895. This was from a barrel of powder from who knows when. Broke it open to try some in my .223 Remington since I only have ‘bout 7 dollars a pound in it. The rifle is a 700 Remington, wood stock BDL, 24 inch barrel with a K10 Weaver from the 70’s. Nothing special about the rifle other than it has pillars installed & is glass bedded.

I have a several bullets from a bulk/close out purchase I made an offer on, again several years ago. These are the Sierra #1360, a 55 grain Sptz. flat base soft point. For primers there’s many Wolf SR on the shelf so decided to use them. I call this shooting cheap.

I laddered these loads & put them on paper. The usual place I shoot with concrete benches was occupied so I drove to another part of the range, set up on a picnic table & placed my targets at 100 yards & began.

I know there are better powder choices for this cartridges but overall the targets were good with all under an inch. Seems this charge is the one I’ll work with as I try a few other things like bullet seating depth & primers.

While there I tried a load with WC844 & the same bullet. The old gun liked that load. Here’s a target using that load.