Thread: Reloading .308

Spoke to my brother in the US about reloading, he reckons there's no ammo there either, particularly in military like calibres. They reckon it's the preppers loading up their garages...

Originally Posted by davetapson

Spoke to my brother in the US about reloading, he reckons there's no ammo there either, particularly in military like calibres. They reckon it's the preppers loading up their garages...

Probably stocking up for the zombie apocalypse. Their garages must just about full by now so things should return to normal by the end of the year based on previous cycles. One of the funniest things I have seen on TV was an episode of Doomsday Preppers where the prepper shot himself with his 10-22 and had to be helicoptered to hospital. In a survival situation he would have been dead in three days. Most of the rest would have been dead in 3 weeks. Off topic I know but couldn't help myself. In penance I offer the following. For the .308W you could probably load a 150 grain flat base soft point ahead of 44 grains of AR2206H and have an accurate round in 99.9% of .308 rifles and never want for anything more for 90 % of NZ hunting. It just wouldn't be as much fun.
Regards Grandpamac.
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Originally Posted by grandpamac

Probably stocking up for the zombie apocalypse. Their garages must just about full by now so things should return to normal by the end of the year based on previous cycles. One of the funniest things I have seen on TV was an episode of Doomsday Preppers where the prepper shot himself with his 10-22 and had to be helicoptered to hospital. In a survival situation he would have been dead in three days. Most of the rest would have been dead in 3 weeks. Off topic I know but couldn't help myself. In penance I offer the following. For the .308W you could probably load a 150 grain flat base soft point ahead of 44 grains of AR2206H and have an accurate round in 99.9% of .308 rifles and never want for anything more for 90 % of NZ hunting. It just wouldn't be as much fun.
Regards Grandpamac.
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Or if you have 2208 then 45 grains of AR 2208 does the same trick. I use this in all my .308s

My mix is 47 grains of 2206h with a Barnes TTSX - expensive but super accurate through my 308

I’m new to reloading and like others have said it’s addictive. I was shooting factory 150 soft points (SP) and had great success on all animals I threw them at 250m and under. Over lock down last year I started to reload mostly 9mm but had 308 dies too and just went from there. The forum was a great help. Ultimately I was chasing accuracy - the 150s were good maybe 1cm spacing ( I don’t understand MOA so I’ll use basic terms ) but the 130s were touching in groups of 3 (key holing) My tikka loves the 130s accuracy wise but the 150s just put animals on the deck better. It’s worth it in my eyes not for the $$ but for that added bonus of you made the bullet that put the deer on your table - or in my case others tables.