Sm 842

[Tommy Cole]

I tried a search on sm 842 but no results?

 

[Walkalong]

What is Sm 842?

 

[joustin]

Is that the surplus pistol powder?

 

[Tommy Cole]

Gun powder, it shoots similar to imr 8208 in my ar15 223, it looks like H335 to me but it's more accurate in my gun. I've been told that it's army surplus powder. 23.1 gr with 60 gr bergers does good in the ar 223. I'm wondering how it would do in 22-250 but no load data and I'm not experienced enough to take off all by myself !

 

[rg1]

You referring to surplus powder? Google "surplus 842 powder". If so it's supposed to have the copper cleaning ability like Hodgdon CFE. No matter what data you may find, surplus powder varies from lot to lot and you HAVE to work up loads for surplus powders. Start in the low recommended range and work up.

 

[Tommy Cole]

Thanks rg1