I have loaded both powders and I don't find IMR Green to be any cleaner.

That being said 20 grains of IMRG with a Win 209 primer, AA wad, 1 1/8oz of shot, should get you close to what you want.

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I've loaded it in a GC hull with 20.5 grains over a Win209, Remington figure 8 and have found it to be high performing and exceptionally clean.

 

GC hull?

 

Just a heads up, the IMR line of Green and Red (not sure which others) have been discontinued. I don't know when they fully stopped producing it, but availability will become non-existent when current stock it depleted. Just an FYI.

 

Has this been verified? I haven't seen anything online or elsewhere that indicates discontinuation.

 

^^^ I hope to find some on clearance sale...

I might but I’ll probably be broke anyways.

 

Doesn't seem to be a whole lot of information out there. Most of the info has just come from inside sources. When we did our club component order this spring and I noticed the IMR Green & Red powders were on clearance, it prompted me to ask the supplier (Sunset Distributors) and that's the answer I got. Tough to say if they have actually stopped production of them yet, unless @timb99 has the info from an insider.

 

I chatted with my sources a while back, so this is old info, but they said at that time that Hodgdon is discontinuing the "color" line of powders altogether. When it runs out, it runs out.

 

I never understood why people complaint about powder being dirty. Yes, it's nice looking down the barrel and seeing that all the powder is burnt. But I clean my guns every time I shoot so that's never an issue.

 

Possibly because it shows an uncompleted burn?
MG

 

Thanks for all your opinions! I was a Cardinal center today, the man that
Sells ammo and reloading components. He said IRM is Not making Geeen

any more! IRM GREEN is gone!​

 

Does anyone know if Hodgdon/IMR is planning to replace IMR Green with another new and different powder offering?

 

If, in fact, they have discontinued the "color" powders because of low sales, I wouldn't expect them to try to replace them with anything. Having said that, I've shot Green, and just bought another 4#. But I couldn't get Green Dot..

 

It's been on the market for almost 4 years.

Press Release Date 11-12-16

IMR® Legendary Powders Releases New IMR Family of Powders

IMR Legendary Powders is excited to announce a new family of shotshell and pistol propellants.

We believe it takes a Legendary Powder brand like IMR to improve this series of legendary powders. This series of five popular burn-rate powders covers an extremely wide range of shotshell and pistol cartridges, utilizing new, green technology. Each powder was designed to match current shotshell bushing charts, so the handloader will already have the appropriate bushings available for each load. This new technology burns clean, providing accurate metering and top performance characteristics. All of these powders are REACH compliant, meaning these propellants are not harmful to the environment.

IMR Target™ The first powder in this new family is a fast-burning pistol powder. This fine-grained, small-flake pistol powder meters superbly, providing very precise loads in even the smallest pistol cartridges like the .25 ACP!

IMR Red™ The second powder in this new family was designed to be an efficient, clean-burning, 12-gauge target powder. IMR Red also performs nicely in various lead pistol target loads, such as match competition loads and Cowboy reduced loads.

IMR Green™ The third in this new family is slightly slower-burning than IMR Red, making it an ideal Trap Handicap powder and soon a favorite with Sporting Clays enthusiasts.

IMR Unequal™ IMR Unequal combines small-sized flakes for uniform metering in all pistol applications and its burn speed accommodates a wide range of shotshell and pistol cartridges.

IMR Blue™ The slowest burn speed of the five new propellants, IMR BLUE, has excellent application for heavy 12-gauge 2-¾-inch, 3-inch and 3-1/2-inch field loads.

These new powders will be available in January 2017 at quality reloading powder dealers everywhere. IMR Target and IMR Blue will be available in one-pound (1lb), four-pound (4lb) and eight-pound (8lb) containers and IMR Red, IMR Green and IMR Unequal in 14-ounce (14 oz), four-pound (4lb) and eight-pound (8lb) containers.

 

I'm still not sure they gave it enough time. Shooters tend to be slower to change to what is new, but then, I may be all wet on that notion.

 

For what it's worth, I used my IMR Green reloads (see previous post in this thread for load details) yesterday shooting a round of sporting clays. I was using my Remington 1100 (cobbled together and looks like a Competition Synthetic model.)

I had used a batch of West Coast shot that was "Medium" hardness for these shells.

The shells performed great!

 

Almost the same exact report, Tim, shooting a round of sporting clays yesterday using IMR Green with a Browning 525. Likewise, I was using West Coast shot and these shells did a great job!

 

It is or was made in Canada.

 

Maybe, but in the 5 years since this thread started, it's long gone. Plenty of current powders to replace it.