Accurate
Accurate 4064
An intermediate-burning general rifle powder built around the 30-06, and a common choice for M1 Garand High Power shooting.
Specifications
| Manufacturer | Accurate |
|---|---|
| Product family | Accurate |
| Status | Currently produced |
| Application | rifle |
| Grain form | extruded |
| Composition | single-base |
| Temperature stable | Not marketed as temperature-stable |
| Burn-rate position | 121 of 198 (fastest = 1) — what this means |
| Typical cartridges | 30-06 Springfield, 22-250 Remington, 220 Swift, 243 WSM, 7x57mm Mauser, 325 WSM |
Short-cut extruded grain, which the manufacturer offers as the reason it handles better than full-length stick powders. Made in Canada.
Burn rate
A medium rifle powder, charted just past Norma 202 and immediately ahead of Accurate 2520.
Chart agreement: consistent across charts - listed in the same relative neighbourhood by every publisher that carries it Ranked by: Hodgdon, Vihtavuori, Shooters World, Wolfe/LoadData.
Powders charted near it — neighbours on the chart are not substitutes, and adjacency tells you nothing about what charge either one takes:
- IMR Enduron 4166 (position 118)
- IMR 4064 (position 119)
- Norma 202 (position 120)
- Shooters World Tactical Rifle (position 122)
- Accurate 2520 (position 123)
- Alliant Reloder 15 (position 124)
Sources
Other Accurate powders
Verify the charge, not just the recipe
Good data gets you a safe starting point. It does not tell you what actually went into the case on stroke 340 — a bridged measure, a double charge, a squib. That is what an RCM Laser Powder Check is for.