Thread: What Have You Loaded Today

Then I loaded 4 Nitro for Black loads in two bullet weights for my 40-70 Sharps Straight Remington Hepburn

Two of each 255 and 335 grain bullets
IMR4198 40% loads
Both shot to the same place at 50m with open sights

Good easy NFB hunting loads

Working up a load for the Grendal with 90gr Varmageddons. Benchmark 8208. No idea on seating depth as magazine dosen't let me go much longer.

Accuracy at starting load was appalling! .5 gr higher and it looks to have come in to around 1.5 inch. Have about .7gr ahead of me too book max, so will take it up another .2 this morning and see what happens.

What does "appalling" look like?

85gn Maker TRex for the 243win.

@whanahuia, use a faster powder, if you have any. I really like AR2219 for bullets that light.

Originally Posted by gimp

What does "appalling" look like?

>2.5 inches over two 5 shot groups.

Originally Posted by Pommy

@whanahuia, use a faster powder, if you have any. I really like AR2219 for bullets that light.

I only have 2209 and 8208 and kind of raped my budget on stocking up on those powders, primers and projectiles for this and my 270 before the next shipment comes into country. As expected to be a 40% price increase from what I hear.

Originally Posted by whanahuia

I only have 2209 and 8208 and kind of raped my budget on stocking up on those powders, primers and projectiles for this and my 270 before the next shipment comes into country. As expected to be a 40% price increase from what I hear.

Nah, shouldn't be that bad. Won't be arriving until next year though.

Originally Posted by Pommy

Nah, shouldn't be that bad. Won't be arriving until next year though.

Pretty sure Steve's indicated 10% increase on current prices

Just for funsies I loaded some additional test loads for the Tikka in .308 Winchester...
All with RS50 powder.

178 grs ELD-X
140 grs LOS HT
150 grs Sierra SBTs



I know that the SBTs will work great. There is just the issue with deforming tips over time...

The ELD-X would also be nice but resupply from the U.S. wasn't very dependable in the last years.
Also the newer batches seem to have quite some inconsistencies when I acutally weigh them.

I would love the 140 grs fragmenting lead-free LOS bullets to work.
Would be a nice addition to the deforming 150 grs FOX that I use in the other Tikka.

The idea would be:
Deforming FOX for smaller game and inside 200 m for less meat damage. The majority of my hunting.
Fragmenting LOS for everything outside 200 m as the tip fragments into three or four pieces for instant tissue damage at distance. As they are also cheaper: Perfect for the range!

I am already excited to test the performance of these loads.
Just need to get rid of the cold I caught before I can do that.

Greetings All,
Thinking I might load a few rounds for my .303 rifles today, so I could post something on this thread, I headed out to my ammo cupboard. Here is what I found.

On the left is the box for the No1 Lee Enfield with 150 grain loads. 150 grain Hornady projectiles, PPU cases, Fiochii primers and 34 grains of AR2206H. A very light rough zero load.
On the right is the box for the No4 Lee Enfield with 174 grain loads. 174 grain Hornady round nose and Greek salvaged FMJ, DI 43 and Norma cases in the same order, F210 primers and 32 grains of AR2206H. The RN load has shot exceptionally well in this rifle producing around 2,050 fps. This rifle has had a scope change and the No1 soon will.
Will report more later.
Regards Grandpamac.

Over the years I have done many weird things reloading.the reuse of stuff appeals to my frugal(tight arse) side. Of course I reuse cases...powder scavenged from pulled loads gets checked to make sure it's what I thought it was,pulled projectiles have been put in again,I've even poked out primers CAREFULLY while wearing eye protection and put them back in after case has been resized. Well they say there is a first time for everything. Mate recently got his loads mixed up and shot pig in back of neck at close range with his "possums ONLY" subsonic .44 magnum load I make for him. Cheap as chips copper washed cast driven by small amount of ap30 or ap50 well pig did not approve but dogs stopped him again where proper load was used.mate skinned out pig and presented me with the barely marked projectile,perfect apart from rifling marks....so I reloaded it again....waste not want not and all that LOL.

Time to put more loads through the 375 Ruger. Some ladder loads ready for a range session next week, weather permitting.

Topped up my stash of 22 creed ammo this morning. 80gr hammer hunter tipped on top of 2213 in alpha brass. Great fallow medicine!

Originally Posted by Shearer

85gn Maker TRex for the 243win.
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How do they perform? The 243 market is getting saturated.