What powder will reduce suppressor fouling?

shumatess

shumatess

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Hello all,
Well I have an odd issue. I shoot a suppressed AR-10, and the powder I currently use (44 Gr. of IMR 4064) really fouls up my suppressor in about 25 shots. I get the MOA and ballistics I'm needing.
But I was hoping some one else has had some experience with this issue.
 
Any Ramshot powder I've used has been really clean burning. Not sure which of theirs is good for 308 but it would be worth a look.

peace.
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I'm no guru at reloading, I just go by what the book says.
So what would an hotter powder be, compared IMR 4064?
And my particular suppressor can be used with water to help baffle it too. And when it starts to foul out, and I do use water, it makes an awful thug sound.
And the sometimes when I really need to shoot over 25 times to where it starts to foul, I really can't stop to clean it.
Jack, I do like the idea of the hotter powder.
 
I use H335 w/150 grain Winchester PSPs that I buy in bulk w/no issues.
Don't reacll the load but it's in the middle & I get 1" groups out of an early PTR91.
Do NOT spray any kind of flammable chemical cleaner in a centerfire can or you can have a secondary ignition from the fumes.
If you do use flammable cleaner then flush it w/water to purge fumes.
Chemical cleaners are ok in .22 rimfire cans & probably help to keep some or the fouling/crud from sticking.
 
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I got the cleaning part down, and have used numerous different suppressors. But I use CLP to clean them. It's just now we have switched up to the M110, and now have really noticed the excessive fouling. I never had this issue with our M24's. We were going to go with the M24A3, but we wouldn't be able to use suppressors with the Laupua round.
But like Jack pointed out, and made me think that since I have a shorter barrel now, a little hotter load would probably do the trick. I just like to load my own ammo, because some times when we need to draw more rounds, the M118 ammo is kinda hard to come by. And I can load as much as I need, and have my wife APO it over to me. Because United gets a bit grumpy when I bring too much in my checked baggage.
 
You shouldn't need to clean your rifle suppressor, in fact many manufacturers recommend not to clean center fire Rifle suppressors, your M24 (any bolt gun) is gonna run cleaner suppressed than ur semi auto becuase there is no gas system and no gas blow back. expect "dirty" using a semi auto AR style rifle suppressed, and lots of upper reciever cleaning. i use 44.5grs of varget in my MK11 MOD 0 and Armalite super sass, shooting the 175SMK about 2575fps with a BC (close to the M118lr), IMHO juicin up the loads wont clean you up. And if you are not fouling your can up to the point of a baffle strike, i wouldn't worry about it. Are you running the SR-M110 suppressor part # 24611???
 
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