Thread: 308 Brass what is a good brand?

Originally Posted by longshot

I only ever tried reloading S&B once, never again. But I reload a lot of Hornady for hunting, because it's easy to get hold of as lots of people at the range shoot factory Hornady incl myself. I find Hornady much better than S&B.
Granted I do like PPU and PMC quite a bit more than Hornady, but for brass that is going to be lost in the scrub or grass in the heat of the moment, I find Hornady is good enough to use and bad enough loose.

I am also using Winchester for my sub loads in .308 and for the same reason of being able to know what is what. Not sure if it's just the brass but the loads work well, with holes touching at 100 even though the holes are the same shape as the side profile of the projectile.

Yeah, the only reason I used Win cases is I had over 50 of them and they sell them as factory sub loads. The issue with using reloads that everyone seems to go on about is that the sub loads don't produce enough pressure to expand the case to seal on the chamber if it isn't 'once fired' in your rifle. I figured that the win cases must work if they sell them as factory loads and they aren't once fired so get 'em, full length size and good to go!

Originally Posted by The bomb

Mind sharing your sub 308 loads?

I'm using 175gr Hornady Sub-X pills, Win cases, currently CCI primers (but to be fair it will be whatever is about going forwards), and 9.5gr of Trailboss powder. Seated to the cannelure on the bullet, crimped with a Lee factory crimp die.

From a 20" Rem barrel 1-10", that's getting 1060FPS about and stable through the target. Very quiet. If I recall right (it's written down downstairs) it's a 7" drop from my full power load 100m zero. For my scope it's set the scope to 6x and the 400 yd drop line is the 50m zero.

If you are going to be using TB powder, start higher than that and test without a suppressor so you can be sure that the pill exits and is stable, then work down to the velocity you want making sure that it exits on each shot and is stable.