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Well between work schedule, high winds, and a broken firing pin, I finally managed to get back to the range. I decided to purchase some Lapua brass and start from scratch. To start I neck sized the Lapua brass and primed it with Fed match large rifle primers. projectile is the Hornady 200gr...

New Question Since It appears I'm way off on my start load, How do I determine what is a safe bottom end for the .308? I just checked a fired case and it holds 56gr of water which is 3.62874 grams or 3.62874 cc volume. What is considered the safe lower limit of case volume for a charge? if I...

More I should also note that there was no increase in bolt lift tension on the 300WM loads, and the .308 functioned properly with the exception of a failure to fully chamber the final load cycling from 42gr to 42.5. The final round did chamber fine manually and extract/eject properly. Also...

more info The brass used in this test was once fired military brass FC head stamps for the 300WM and LC for the .308. Case prep included for the .308, small base full length resize, primer pocket crimp removal, flash hole uniformed, length trimmed, deburred, and chamfered. Headspace was...

Just a little more info The loads I am currently using are 300 WM 210gr berger HVLD over 71.5gr of MagPro COAL 3.525" avg velocity of 2648fps SD 9.5 yielding .25 MOA from my near bone stock rem 700 sps (forend Stiffened and free floated and action glass bedded) 308 win 190 SMK over...

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Wondering if anyone can help me with a couple new load work ups. I am working with the new Hornady ELD-X 200gr .308s in 300 WM (rem 700 sps) and .308 win. (LR/SR clone). Since there is very little data available for these so far, I started today by attempting to determine charge limits...

Hoping to test these myself this week. I just picked up 200 of the 200gr .308s and will be working up loads for my 300 WM, (replacing my current 210gr Berger VLDH over 71.5 gr MagPro), and .308 Win, (replacing 190gr SMK over 41.9gr IMR 4064). Both existing loads produce sub 1/4 MOA groups...

Looking for some input regarding OAL. Has anyone loaded these in .308 for an LR/SR platform? I'm hoping to replace my 190 gr SMK load with a more hunting appropriate 200 gr ELD-X load. Wondering how these will perform with regard to Jump...

Just recieved a new rifle and have been trying to find the range constants for figuring windage (minutes of full wind). I have searched the web, and so far come up dry. If anyone can help with either the constants themselves, or a formula for figuring them my self it would be greatly appreciated.