Powder Recommendations.

[DarthBubba]

7.62x54R

7.62x54R

Try IMR4320 with a 180 grn. BTSP, CCI large rifle primer and vary your loading between 46.5 and 48.0 grains this load should be seated to an OAL of 3.037”
and should yield 2519 – 2670 feet/second you may get some pressure signs at the 48 grn. Load depending on the amount of slack in the chamber.

DarthBubba

 

[Black Gas]

Loads aside, i'd skip the anniversary and go straight to the lee 4 hole turret with auto index. It can be used the same way as the anniversary (single stage) if you really want to for some reason, but in its normal function is quicker and IMO safer, as double loads are hard to pull off.
Just be careful when breaking your rythm to weigh a charge, thats when they can happen.

You will be wishing you got a turret after a week with the anniversary kit!

 

[Kamicosmos]

I use power pistol in .45 and varget in 223. I am looking at BLC2 for 7.62x39 and .223. But, my AR really likes the varget, and while I have every thing to load for the x39...it's for my ak, and I have 1K of wolf to eat up yet.

I'll also suggest a turret. I recently sold my Loadmaster progressive to buy an RCBS turret, and I love it! All the Simplicity , consistancy, and saftey of a single stage, but faster! I wish I would have got the turret a few years back instead of the progressive.

That said, every reloader still needs a single stage though. My Special 5 is currently used as either a universal decap station, or a powder thrower station.

 

[md2lgyk]

Bullseye is good for my 9mm and .45 acp loads. It is accurate, consistent and inexpensive. I have not found it to be as dirty as everyone says...

My experience is just the opposite. After a bullseye match, my gun hand is filthy and there's unburned powder all over my arm. I now use Vihta Vouri N310, which is much cleaner though not as inexpensive.

 

[GunAdmirer]

Okay, it is not as clean in my .45 acp loads. It is clean in my other caliber loads, especially 9mm.

 

[TooTaxed]

I'm with "only1asterisk"...after trying a lot of powders over the years, I've standardized on #231 for pistol from 9-mm Mak to .45 Colt, and #4895 (about $80/8-lb milsurp, plus shipping...total about $108/8-lb) for rifle from .223 NATO through .30-06 to .45-70.

 

[Magnum Mike]

7.62x39, in a Chinese AK-47, I use AA 1680.
.223 Rem, in a Colt AR-15 H-Bar, I use BL-C2 and Winchester 748.
For the .45 ACP in a 1911 Colt, so far I found the best results with Winchester 231.