Re: Anyone shooting 190 gr out of 308?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Niles Coyote</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: steppenwolf</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Niles Coyote</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Try around 43.2g of varget w/ lapua brass, of course work up to that. Half the fun of reloading is trying new loads.
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Not to thread-jack this one, but I was looking for a Varget load using the PPU 190gn HPBTs.
I don't have any 190gn SMKs to compare them with, but was interested in what loaded <span style="font-weight: bold">COAL</span> guys are using with the 190gn pills. I have a Sav FP 10 and the 2.800" COAL that works w/ the 168gn HPs doesn't with the PPU 190gns due to length. Thanks! </div></div>
Cant say I know what a PPU is but I load 190 bergers VLD's .010 into the lands which is either 2.883 or 2.893 OAL, this is a custom tube and chamber </div></div>
Guess I should've been a bit more clear on this. "<span style="font-weight: bold">PPU</span>" is short-hand for Privy Partisian (and PPU appears on the head stamp of the brass in Privy's ammo line-up).
They sell PPU bullets and brass separately as components, and a while back Graf & Sons had in stock PPU's 190gns, 168gn and, *I think*, 155gn HPBTs.
The price was great and I hadn't had the opportunity to play with any 190gn match-type pills, so I picked up about 500 of them (which came to me loaded in 100-rd bags).
Long story short, ... I started out at the 2.800 COAL but found the loaded rounds wouldn't chamber in my Savage FP 10. Obviously, loading them longer won't work. That COAL does work fine, however, for the 168gn & 155gn stuff that I've loaded, though these lighter bullets weren't PPU.
So I started seating the bullets deeper until I got to 2.740-45". Now every cartridge chambers fine. Just wanted to know how other guys were setting up their 190gn loads generally - and, in particular, whether anybody is or has loaded up the PPU 190gn HPBTs.
Thanks.