Who is using IMR 3031?

[rjh245]

I have been having great success with 3031 in my 300 Savage, model 99.
I have been loading pulled surplus bullets.

Anyone else using 3031? What calibers are you loading and are you having success?
If you hate 3031 can you tell me why?

[ShooterAZ]

I use it in most of my .30 cals, 30-30, 30-06, 308, 7.62x54R. Also in 7x30 Waters. I like it a lot.

[fishhawk]

IMR 3031 works good in my 375 win BB

[44man]

Great powder and like 4895 works great in many calibers, 30-30, etc and great in the 45-70 too.
It was my powder of choice when I had a .222 also.

[truckerdave397]

I have used 3031 in 243 and 22-250 with very good luck.

[DLCTEX]

It is my accuracy powder in 22-250. 31 gr. behind 55gr. Gold match is a tackdriver for me.

[Bohica793]

36gr under an NOE 460-405 in 45/70 is a beautiful thing.

[tsubaki]

For the 30'06 I'm using a normal hunting load of 48.0gr with a 150gr PSP and then a real fast booger with 53.0gr behind a 150gr FMJ scooting out there at 3120fps.
The 45/70 now gets 56.0gr with the 300gr JHP. I did have it up to 60.0gr but that load ended up being pointless.

I expect to start experimenting with real boolits for the 45/70 soon as I get the pistol boolits going.

[Pistol Champ]

I load 125 gr in my 475 A&M mag with a 500 gr bullet

[LAGS]

I just started using it in my 35 Whelen, and am going to try it in my 8 x 57 Mausers.
So far the whelen with Heavy C B's likes it
I used it years ago in my 30/30 and was very pleased

[John Guedry]

Use it in 45/70 works good.

[case931]

Pretty much accepted as "the" 308 Winchester accuracy load in the 60's and 70's. The AMTU at Fort Benning used it as their standard 300 meter load with a 168 sierra for a long time. Still good today.

[Yodogsandman]

Pretty much accepted as "the" 308 Winchester accuracy load in the 60's and 70's. The AMTU at Fort Benning used it as their standard 300 meter load with a 168 sierra for a long time. Still good today.

Welcome to the site! Thank you for an enlightening first post, I didn't know that. I'll have to try it in the 308.

[Cmm_3940]

.30-06 and .223

[jrmartin1964]

I have used 3031 with success in virtually every cartridge I shoot that uses a Large Rifle primer, including but not limited to: 220 Swift, 243 Winchester, 257 Roberts, 6.5mm Carcano, 7mm Mauser, 30 Remington, 30-30, 308 Winchester, 30-40 Krag, 30-06, 7.65mm Mauser, 303 British, 8mm Mauser, 35 Remington, 375 Winchester, 11mm Mauser, and 45-70. It is an extremely versatile powder, and one of my favorites for 35 years.

[aharlow]

Use it for my 45-70 loads and love it so far. Pretty clean burning and fills the case very nicely with my 405 Gr. Lee cast boolits. So far besides using Reloader 7, when i can find it, this is one of my favorites for this caliber.

[rjh245]

.30-06 and .223

I never tried it in the .223. Is that a compressed load?

[pworley1]

Most everything already mentioned plus 43 Spanish.

[mrbill2]

3031 in the 308 with cast bullets from 190 to 220 grs. work for me in all 4 of my 308's.
Remington, Howa, Savage, Ruger.

[GabbyM]

Tried it in my 223 and 270 back in the 1970's. Had to weigh every charge to make the long stick powder work. Maybe I just needed a better powder measure but I'm lazy. So I migrated to easy measure powder. It's however obviously been a very successful powder.

IMR has a whole new line of powders out. Placing in limbo the future of some of our old standbys.