Hello Members: Anyone have any opinions on IMR 4064? I would be using it in .308-based cartridges, including .243, 7mm-08, .308, and, if feasible, .358. Thanks in advance.

I like it, ..... I love it...... I want more of it!

I have found it to be an excellent powder in all the applications I have used it. It has given me some very accurate loads. For what you want to load, you could probably buy a jug or two (or three) and be good to go for a long time.

It's a go to accuracy powder for a lot of 08 cartridges. Another favorite in 08 size cases is RL15, for me I get a bit more velocity w/ a bit better accuracy.

IMR 4064 is some good stuff. I've used it in various cartridges like the ones you've mentioned with very satisfactory results.

IMR4064 has given me my most accurate loads in all three of the rifle calibers I load for (243Win, 270Win, 30/06).

Other powders are usually capable of providing higher velocities, but I haven't found any that will provide small groups as consistently as IMR4064.

I use it in my 375 H&H and 308..Have used it in most calibers like the .270 and 30-06..Its a good powder.

This has been the most accurate powder with varmint bullets in my .257 Roberts. I have not tried it with heavier bullets in anything else either though.

I'm using it in my .308 and also in my .35 Remington. It does very well in the .308 and is my main powder for the .35 with 180 and 200 grain jacketed bullets over slightly compressed charges. Good stuff.

I use it in my 7mm-08 and my wife's 308.
Can't think of anything bad to say about it, except that I have to keep running to the shop and buying more of it.

.243, .308 8x57, 30-06 works great

According to George Frost's "Ammunition Making," Winchester used to load most of their commercial centerfire ammo with 4064, in a wide variety of calibers.

I was trying to use RL-15 with light bullets in my new 243 and it did well. Then I got out the blue can of IMR 4064. The accuracy is phenominal.

I have not even bothered to chronograph it. When the bullet goes where I call the shot it satisfies me.

It the first powder that I try in all of my midsize cartridges and I use 8 Lbs every summer in my 308, 243's, etc. and just discovered that gets less than .5 MOA in a 22.250 I just built.

I've found it the powder of choice in 94 different loadings, and usable in 931.

IMR 4064 is a must have powder for my .243, 7-08, and 30-06, and even a few cast bullet loads in my 30/30. I just don't understand why I only buy it by the LB locally and order less useful powders by the jug that I can't get around here. BM

Bill

My powder of choice in

.260 Rem
.308 Win
6mm 30-30 AI
22-250
.243 Win

I use alot of others but if I just want to put together some known quality loads its the first I go to. Now if it were just easier to run thru a powder measure....but I guess you can't have everything.

Well, members, its unanimous. Thanks for the input - I am buying a container this evening. Good shooting to you all.

I love/hate IMR4064. I love it for the fine accuracy it gives me in quite a few different calibers. I hate it for being a pain in the ass to meter properly. Best wishes.

Cal - Montreal

What about AA 4064? I heard it meters better than IMR. Has anybody tried it as a replacement for IMR? Do you think it would perform as well, or should I stick with the IMR and put up with the fact that it doesn't meter that well?

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Originally posted by steve4102:
What about AA 4064? I heard it meters better than IMR. Has anybody tried it as a replacement for IMR? Do you think it would perform as well, or should I stick with the IMR and put up with the fact that it doesn't meter that well?

AA-4064 works well, but the lot I have is much slower than IMR

IMR 4064 is the optimum powder for many mid-size cartridges. It is the most accurate powder I've ever found for my 6mm Remington, and it is superb for the .308 and the other '08-based cartridges. In the 30-06 it is ideal for 150 gr. bullets, but I think a slower burning powder such as one of the 4350 or 4831 powders is better for 180 gr. bullets in the '06.

IMR4064 gave me very accurate loads with 270 gr. bullets in my .375 H&H, although I could get higher velocity and nearly the same accuracy with compressed loads of H4350.

I call IMR's 4064 the accuracy powder. When I was having troubles with the 270 WSM I used it and it gave the best groups even in that overbore round.

I just got in a 8 lb bottle of it. It's not in the old steel cans but in a plastic one.

I use it in the 243, 30-06, 219, 8-57 JR and other loads.

Like everyone else it is one of my main powders. I really like it in my 7.5x55 Swiss but use it in .308, 30-06 for my M1 and have used it in my .303 although right now my .303 load is with IMR3031.
It is a good "Go To" powder for a very wide selection of calibers.

IMR 4064 one versatile powder. It works well in many cartridges and is the very best in others. I've used it in my loads from .17 Remington to 30 06. But I really love this powder in my .220 Swift.

Of all the rifle powders available to us IMR-4064 is probably among the top five used of them all.

I'd guess that IMR/H-4831, H-414, RL-15, IMR/H-4350 and IMR 4064 are among the five most used powders and if IMR-4064 was no longer available there'd be a heck of a lot of folks writing hate mail to Hodgdons!

Where in Western Maryland? I live in Cumberland.

I wish I had more of it. The powder is near ideal for all except the .358 Win. It is my go to powder for accuracy in the .260 and the .243 AI, and the .308.

308Sako,
if not 4064 for the 358, then what do you use? Lou

IMR4064 in a .308 Win. has won more highpower matches and set more records along the way than any other powder used. It's about impossible to beat for bullets in the 160 to 190 grain range.

Years ago at one of the US arsenals, tests were done with IMR4064 in the .30-06 cartridge and two interesting things were noted. Barrels lasted longer and better accuracy was attained than what IMR4895 produced. But only when weighed charges were used. Metered charges of IMR4064 didn't do as well; charge weight varied too much.

Used it for years in a 220 Swift and 243 Winchester. I recently tried different powders in each. I wound up switching to RL 15 in the Swift but the 243 with 80 grain bullets still likes 4064 better than anything else I tried. (H4831, IMR4350, Varget)

Dr Lou, The Gods smile on the .358 and the powder for me was always H 335 a nice Ball type which meters to easily. 45 grains with the Hornady 250 RN was absolute death for my younger days Eastern deer hunting. You could actually see a difference in the way they smacked a deer versus the lesser calibers.

Well, my first response in my head turned out to be exactly what I posted two years ago when this thread was first created...

So once again...

I like it, I love it, I want more of it!!!!

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All my surplus Mausers in 7.92x57 like it.

ZM

It is the cats meow in my Encore pistol chambered in 260 with 120 BT's.