Thread: 208 Amax / 208 Eld M Reloder 23 or 26 300WM

Anyone running 208 Amax or 208 Eld M with Reloder 23 or 26 not alot of data in my manual for this combo.
Rifle is Tikka T3 300 Win Mag standard length barrel.


Cheers

Best check in with mimms2 first

I run my .300 WM with 208 ELD-M on AR2217. It’s hard to go past in the .300 with heavy projectiles, and is a very temperature stable powder. Mine is a T3 action with a 26” barrel and I get an average of 2984 fps.

Have never tried RE26 in mine as 2217 is so reliable.

Originally Posted by Spitfire

I run my .300 WM with 208 ELD-M on AR2217. It’s hard to go past in the .300 with heavy projectiles, and is a very temperature stable powder. Mine is a T3 action with a 26” barrel and I get an average of 2984 fps.

Have never tried RE26 in mine as 2217 is so reliable.

Im the same, running 2217 and 208 ELD-m for 2950 fps from a 24inch sako.

I take it 208 class bullets have no trouble stabilizing in a 1:11 which I believe sako are

Tried Reloder 23 with the 208 eld m but it was pretty ordinary, will give Reloder 26 a go, if that fails I have some 2223sc and IMR4831 to test.
Thanks for the reply’s Cheers

Originally Posted by PerazziSC3

I take it 208 class bullets have no trouble stabilizing in a 1:11 which I believe sako are

Mine shoots tight groups but i believe ive lost a bit of bc with the 11 twist. Dial ups were spot on too around 500m but started to come up short at around 1000m. The velocity was done with a labradar.

210gr bergers are 1/11 twist.
77gr of 2217 over the 210 or 215gr berger is a widely used pet load that works on a number of rifles

Yip - 77.6 grains of 2217 (H1000) with 208 ELD-M in mine and a 10 twist barrel.

I run 74grs of RL 26 with the 200 gr ELDX in my Tikka 300 WM, over all length is 85.5 mm which fit my mag. Velocity is 2900 fps. You could load a few grains lower for the 208gr and work up from there.