i am just starting to reload, does anyone have any pet loads for 308 and 300wm for deer hunting. thanks scott
Hunting & Fishing pet loads
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Re: pet loads
under the reloading section at the top is the reloading depot. it has tons of pet loads for diffrent calibers
under the reloading section at the top is the reloading depot. it has tons of pet loads for diffrent calibers
Re: pet loads
Lapua brass
CCI BR2 primers
44.1 gr. Varget
Barnes 168 gr. T-TSX
COAL 2.810
Muzzle velocity is about 2700 fps
I shoot .5 MOA out to 300 yards with this load in my Savage 10FP in .308. I have taken deer and pigs with this load and it should be good for anything from coyotes to moose if I do my part.
Lapua brass
CCI BR2 primers
44.1 gr. Varget
Barnes 168 gr. T-TSX
COAL 2.810
Muzzle velocity is about 2700 fps
I shoot .5 MOA out to 300 yards with this load in my Savage 10FP in .308. I have taken deer and pigs with this load and it should be good for anything from coyotes to moose if I do my part.
Re: pet loads
Remington Express Core-Lokts. I'm just an average hunter.
I reload for match shooting because the ratio of development vs application rounds is reasonable. For hunting, I just don't shoot enough application rounds that reinventing a hunting load is either cost or time-effective. Further, The factories earn their bread and butter from hunting ammo; so turning out piss-poor ammo is not in their interest. I'd rather let them expend <span style="font-style: italic">their</span> time and <span style="font-style: italic">their</span> money perfecting a load. By the time I'd be done developing my own load, their stuff would be a fraction of my cost.
IMHO, the grand majority of hunting requirements are more than adequately resolved using factory hunting ammo.
The closest I will come to making hunting ammo would be to substitute a nearly identical hunting bullet (i.e a 180gr GameKing for a 175gr MatchKing, I've used enough as a stopgap substitute with 45gr of Varget in match shooting to know they shoot the same) for a match bullet using match load specs, retiring my about-shot-out brass for one last cycle as hunting ammo.
Greg
Remington Express Core-Lokts. I'm just an average hunter.
I reload for match shooting because the ratio of development vs application rounds is reasonable. For hunting, I just don't shoot enough application rounds that reinventing a hunting load is either cost or time-effective. Further, The factories earn their bread and butter from hunting ammo; so turning out piss-poor ammo is not in their interest. I'd rather let them expend <span style="font-style: italic">their</span> time and <span style="font-style: italic">their</span> money perfecting a load. By the time I'd be done developing my own load, their stuff would be a fraction of my cost.
IMHO, the grand majority of hunting requirements are more than adequately resolved using factory hunting ammo.
The closest I will come to making hunting ammo would be to substitute a nearly identical hunting bullet (i.e a 180gr GameKing for a 175gr MatchKing, I've used enough as a stopgap substitute with 45gr of Varget in match shooting to know they shoot the same) for a match bullet using match load specs, retiring my about-shot-out brass for one last cycle as hunting ammo.
Greg
