[thornblom]

Gentlemen,

I was surfing the web for more info yesterday and ran across this 11 page report by Bart Bobbit.

.308 loads (Bart Bobbit)

Check it out, its is both interesting and informative.

Hope ya'll like it.

Sincerely,
Dave (Bubba) Thornblom

 

[BK]

Bubba,
I don't see a link.

 

[Trigger_Puller]

http://yarchive.net/gun/ammo/308_loads.html

 

[El Chorizo]

Interesting read. I've never used ball powder before either. They seem to like the Federal 210 primer! Too bad I have about 1800+ of the CCI BR2's left!

Although I've had good results with those BR2's so far!

 

[thornblom]

In some of my recent shooting sessions with my 2 remington vsf rifles, 1 in .22-250 and 1 in .308, I have shot loads using all the same ingrediants except for primers. Some loads used fed 210m, some CCi-Br2 and some with Winchester LR. At 100 yards I saw no significant difference in group size between fed and cci. Both fed and cci were more consistant than winchester.

Maybe as you stretch the yardage out, there might be a difference. I have always used the CCI-Br2 primer with good results. Just in the last couple of years have I tried the fed 210m and for now it is about a toss up.

Now the big difference is in my .375 JDJ. It definately prefers the fed 210m. (Not a Remington 700)

Sincerely,
Dave (Bubba) Thornblom

I think one thing to remember about this article of Mr. Bobbit's, it was written in the 1990's, I think.
The rws primer he mentions, I have never heard of. But, then I have never really looked for anything but fed, cci and winchester.

 

[El Chorizo]

That's probably the case Dave, as I'm haven't shot beyond a 100 yards or so. I think as you stretch out the yardage, then those minute differences can start to show themselves!

 

[M700]

Bart Bobbitts replys are good but they are very dated - 1993.

There is a whole lot of newer data out there, and a good number with powders that weren't availiable at that time.

 

[thornblom]

Gentlemen,

Here is another interesting read for loading the .308 winchester:

www.6mmbr.com/308win.html

Hope ya'll enjoy it as much as I did.

Sincerely,
Dave (Bubba) Thornblom

 

[El Chorizo]

That's where I did most of research when picking out a starting load for my .308. A good read for sure!