What's your views and opinions on reloader 15 vs varget ? I'm shooting a remington 700 xcr lrt 308
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What's your views and opinions on reloader 15 vs varget ? I'm shooting a remington 700 xcr lrt 308
Lot-to-lot consistency has been better in my experience with RE15. I only tried two different lots of varget with two entire grains difference to achieve the same velocity between the two lots...I quickly went back to RE15.
Cci br2, lapua brass
I prefer RL-15 over Varget for my 175MK load out of my 308. While I do use Varget for other loads, RL-15 works best for me behind the 175MK.
I'm getting 2821fps, ES-5, SD-1.9 with my last time through the chrono. I haven't been able to get that speed or consistency with Varget. RL-15 doesn't work so well for me with the lighter 155gr. bullets. I use Varget for those.
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The most RL-15 I've ever tried with 175 MK is 45.5gr. My MV with RL-15 needs to be just a tad over 2800fps. Much past that and accuracy suffers.
45.4gr. is what I go with in the cooler weather.
I don't think I could fit 47gr. in a case anyway. I'm using well used Lapua brass.
Keep in mind that this is out of a 30 inch barrel.Im talking about 155s now.
45.5 sounds like way too much for 175MKs, 42grs is what I use with 168AMAXs w/Lapua brass, that happens to be the accuracy load in the Sierra manual, too.
When I used lapua brass I dropped the charge to 45.5grs,(155s) still got .5moa, the 47grain charge is with Win brass. Youre using 155MKs, yeah?
My GAP loves 44g of Varget with 175/178's and 43.1g of RL-15 for 168's. Accuracy is superb with both. It all comes down to working up a good load with each powder/bullet combination.
Always start low and work up - The best advice repeated here many times.
My GAP loves 44g of Varget with 175/178's and 43.1g of RL-15 for 168's. Accuracy is superb with both. It all comes down to working up a good load with each powder/bullet combination.
Always start low and work up - The best advice repeated here many times.
I have looked at a few diffrent reloading manuals and all of them have a diffrent Max load listed for r15 and 175 smk . I know to work up from minimum which is what I will do but what do your reloading manuals say is max ? I have looked at noslers 6 and 7 as well as hodgdon . Thanks