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Babydriver Full Member Offline Posts: 147 Joined: Mar 22^nd, 2024	4759 Sep 22^nd, 2025 at 7:39pm	Print Post
	Today my 32-40 load was 13.5 gr 4759, no wad or fill, and a 160 gr bullet. 100 yards. Shot well but I noticed a number of pieces of the powder in the barrel. Didn’t burn. I have used 4198 and never seen this with it?


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1Hawkeye Full Member Offline Posts: 188 Location: South end of Northern Virginia Joined: Jun 29^th, 2019	Re: 4759 Reply #1 - Sep 22^nd, 2025 at 9:25pm	Print Post
	Nothing to worry about. It's common for IMR powders to do that.


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calledflyer Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3815 Joined: Mar 9^th, 2015	Re: 4759 Reply #2 - Sep 22^nd, 2025 at 9:54pm	Print Post
	sometimes,if it's safe, increasing the size of the charge makes 'em go away. funny, that I learned that cure from an old mentor while I was shooting 4198. never happened to me with that wonderful 4759.


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gnoahhh Oldtimer Offline Posts: 989 Location: Gaithersburg, MD Joined: Mar 31^st, 2010	Re: 4759 Reply #3 - Sep 23^rd, 2025 at 8:59pm	Print Post
	1Hawkeye wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2025 at 9:25pm: Nothing to worry about. It's common for IMR powders to do that. Ahh, but 4759 is/was an SR powder not IMR (although made by the IMR powder company). When it was discontinued I frantically searched out every granule of 4759 I could find, and at that point bragged that I had a lifetime supply. I guess I better consult the actuary tables to see how much longer I have because the stash is dwindling (but still in excess of 15 pounds). That, or re-start a bunch of bad lifestyle habits to purposely make good on my bragging. I still curse Hodgdon/IMR heartily at every opportunity for their dastardly discontinuance of SR-4759.


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craigster Oldtimer Offline Posts: 761 Location: lost coast CA Joined: Feb 20^th, 2011	Re: 4759 Reply #4 - Sep 23^rd, 2025 at 9:53pm	Print Post
	Much ado about nothing.


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Bent_Ramrod Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1532 Location: Southern Arizona Joined: Feb 8^th, 2006	Re: 4759 Reply #5 - Sep 24^th, 2025 at 8:56am	Print Post
	I only found one cast-bullet 4759 load that burned all the powder, or at least left no kibbles in the barrel. That was a pretty stiff (for cast bullets) load in a bottleneck .30 Remington in a Model 30 bolt action. It burned all the powder but wasn't very accurate. Reducing the powder charge left the barrel looking like autumn leaves on a bike path after every shot, but the bullets clustered nicely. Sometimes I'd blow the granules out of the barrel before the next shot, sometimes not. It never seemed to make any difference in accuracy. Like they say in the wiseguy movies, "Fuhgedabahdit!"


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frnkeore Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 7514 Location: Central Point, OR 97502 Joined: Jun 16^th, 2010	Re: 4759 Reply #6 - Sep 24^th, 2025 at 6:16pm	Print Post
	I've limited my use of 4759, for the past 30 years and still have about 1.5 lb of it. I've only used it as a duplex primer, up to 6.0 gr and for my 44 Stevens at 12.2 gr or 20 gr by volume in a lyman measure. A t the rate I'm shooting now, it will out last me. BTW, I only use it with Rem 1 1/2, 2 1/2 and F150 primers as that has been the most accurate primer for it.

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Smoke Oldtimer Offline Posts: 789 Location: San Diego Joined: Feb 24^th, 2013	Re: 4759 Reply #7 - Sep 24^th, 2025 at 7:53pm	Print Post
	gnoahhh wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2025 at 8:59pm: [quote author=156C45534F415D41240 link=1758584381/1#1 date=1758590744]I still curse Hodgdon/IMR heartily at every opportunity for their dastardly discontinuance of SR-4759. It wasn't only 4759 that got the axe. It was all the SR (sporting rifle) powders. Their production was too expensive and the market had dwindled.

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Babydriver Full Member Offline Posts: 147 Joined: Mar 22^nd, 2024	Re: 4759 Reply #8 - Sep 24^th, 2025 at 7:56pm	Print Post
	How about 32-40 loads using 5744?


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Smoke Oldtimer Offline Posts: 789 Location: San Diego Joined: Feb 24^th, 2013	Re: 4759 Reply #9 - Sep 24^th, 2025 at 8:01pm	Print Post
	gnoahhh wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2025 at 8:59pm: I still curse Hodgdon/IMR heartily at every opportunity for their dastardly discontinuance of SR-4759. It wasn't only 4759 that got the axe. It was all the SR (sporting rifle) powders. Their production was too expensive and the market had dwindled.

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calledflyer Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3815 Joined: Mar 9^th, 2015	Re: 4759 Reply #10 - Sep 24^th, 2025 at 8:10pm	Print Post
	Babydriver wrote on Sep 24^th, 2025 at 7:56pm: How about 32-40 loads using 5744? Why not begin a thread for that powder and leave the discussion here to 4759? I'm not upset that you ask, but it really is a whole different kettle of fish.


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1Hawkeye Full Member Offline Posts: 188 Location: South end of Northern Virginia Joined: Jun 29^th, 2019	Re: 4759 Reply #11 - Sep 24^th, 2025 at 10:35pm	Print Post
	I too lament the loss of 4759. I had a load for .45-70 with a 330 gr cast bullet that was great in every rifle l used it in .5744 is close but not worth the money and I noticed that it has a snappier recoil compared to a load using 4759 at the same velocity.


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