Thread: A few 308 questions.

I understand that it would potentially be just as cheap to get some factory ammos for this job. There are a few reasons I decided to go down this road instead. Firstly, I like knowing how things work and how I can effect and manipulate them. It sounds like fun. I did look into Belmont ammunition before exploring reloading at all, and if their website is accurate, getting large quantities of their ammo at the moment is not a going thing! The milsurp FMJ could be an option, but I dont have a special rifle for just shooting goats, and perhaps I am making some incorrect assumptions, but I sort of just dislike the idea of putting large quantities of that stuff through a rig I am quite fond of.


So a bit of an update, I have managed to aquire a range of projectiles to start playing with. I have 130grHp, Some 150gr Sp Hot cors (Thanks Micky Duck), and a box of hornady 165gr BtSp.
All came together pretty easy and I was getting pretty excited.
Then I began looking for the reccomended powders... well, it seems its a hard world out there powder wise at the moment. After ever website said every store was out of every powder that had been suggested, it was with little optimism that I planned to visit both Delta Mike and Custom Guns in Invercargill today. Thankfully, the great service I encountered at both stores meant I now have in my possession a tin of IMR4166, 2 packets of Large rifle magnum primers, and all the advice a growing boy needs to safely turn them into bullets!

I also picked up this powder thrower off trademe for $60 to match my press. Time to get on with it!