Reloading recipe needed

[CouldBeWorse]

Hodgdon has a PDF on-line of "Hodgdon H4895 reduced rifle loads for youth hunting, informal target and plinking." It has a 30-06 load for 125 gr. I've been using on an M1917. When I tried switching back to factory ammo, my CMP clubmates complained about the noise!

There's a note in the PDF which says that you can take virtually any Hodgdon recipe and use 60% of the maximum charge; but not to reduce that by more than 10%. They claim this flexibility is unique to H4895's "slow propellant that ignites uniformly in reduced charges."

I noticed that the suggested recipes in the PDF tend to be 75% of the max. charge from my Lee book. For example, 125 grain Nosler boattail FMJ is recommended with 40.5 grains of H4895, which is about 75% of the max. charge according to Lee. The Hodgdon "reduced load" for 130 gr. Hornady SSP is 39 grains, or 73.4% of the max. charge according to Lee.

So although the Hodgdon PDF says to try 60% of max., it sounds like 75% of max. may be a better bet. Unfortunately, they don't list a 110 grain recipe, but I'd say that they imply that the same treatment could be used with other recipes. I'd probably take the Lyman cast bullet recipe for 110 gr. cast, in the diameter you've got, and try 75% of Lyman's listed max. charge.