Thread: What Have You Loaded Today

Greetings all,
It has taken a little time to get around to some handloading. The rifle is a Martini action fitted with a take out 7.62 barrel and chambered in .30 US aka .30-40 Krag. As the action was made in 1881 the decision was made to keep the loads soft or a max of 35,000 CUP. The aim was to sort some loads that I could use in 300 yard F Class shooting. Pressure tested load data is very rare and some contradictory. Fortunately some data for AR2208 appeared on the Hodgdon site recently and previous experience with soft loads the .308 could be used.
So the rifle as mentioned is a Martini action with a 610mm 7.62 calibre Sportco barrel with a 1 in 12 twist. Scope is a VX1 3-9.
Cases are WW Super .303 cases reformed to .30-40. There are 40 .30-40 cases on hand will be used for final loads. Projectiles are Hornady 150 grain soft points seated to78.7mm overall.
Test charges are 40 grains of AR2208 with a listed velocity of 2,567 fps and 38 grains of AR2206H for am estimated velocity of 2,385 fps. This is in line with a chronographed velocity of 2,350 fps in the 22 inch barrel of my .308.
Will let you know how they shoot.
Regards Grandpamac.

Originally Posted by grandpamac

Greetings all,
It has taken a little time to get around to some handloading. The rifle is a Martini action fitted with a take out 7.62 barrel and chambered in .30 US aka .30-40 Krag. As the action was made in 1881 the decision was made to keep the loads soft or a max of 35,000 CUP. The aim was to sort some loads that I could use in 300 yard F Class shooting. Pressure tested load data is very rare and some contradictory. Fortunately some data for AR2208 appeared on the Hodgdon site recently and previous experience with soft loads the .308 could be used.
So the rifle as mentioned is a Martini action with a 610mm 7.62 calibre Sportco barrel with a 1 in 12 twist. Scope is a VX1 3-9.
Cases are WW Super .303 cases reformed to .30-40. There are 40 .30-40 cases on hand will be used for final loads. Projectiles are Hornady 150 grain soft points seated to78.7mm overall.
Test charges are 40 grains of AR2208 with a listed velocity of 2,567 fps and 38 grains of AR2206H for am estimated velocity of 2,385 fps. This is in line with a chronographed velocity of 2,350 fps in the 22 inch barrel of my .308.
Will let you know how they shoot.
Regards Grandpamac.

That sounds interesting! As competitive shooters we get so wrapped up in es/sd tiny groups at 1000 meters that we forget to have fun with some of our other rifles.
Cheers

Originally Posted by f-class shooter

That sounds interesting! As competitive shooters we get so wrapped up in es/sd tiny groups at 1000 meters that we forget to have fun with some of our other rifles.
Cheers

Greetings,
Getting on a bit and only just started F-class I have made my peace with participating rather than competing. The handloading side of it is a big part of the attraction. Hence the use of a 142 year old rifle with a pretty heavy trigger. There is a .308 barrelled P14 in the cupboard and an Omark. Hmmm.
Grandpamac.
PS Plus two .303 rifles.

Twenty five 7mm08 with 140gn Bergers being pushed by 40.4gn of IMR 4895.

Took a while to find all i needed as recently moved and have learnt i need to lable boxes more concisely...

Where is all the rl26 you guys are loading coming from?
I've got a little but I am scared to use it and run out.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Where is all the rl26 you guys are loading coming from?
I've got a little but I am scared to use it and run out.

Got my last couple tubs from Gunworks, they ration it out so everyone gets a bit.


Loaded up a bunch of 260 ammo today as was down to my last 2 rounds, Sierra 130gn Gamechangers with a good load of Superformance

Didn't actually Reload anything , but did get 500 x 6mm Sierra 85gn hpbt off a guy to expand my projectile reserve for the new 6x45 .

Loaded up some 243 with 75gn speers and some 75 v max

Loaded a fair few today the child friendly pet load of 168amax ahead of 42gns 2206h in the .308 a seating depth showdown in the .270win with 145 eldx and 57gn of SF 15,20,25,30 and tikka mag length and some ladders to blow out some dented shoulders on over sized 7saum brass with 175 eldx,162eldx and 160 NBT now up is some hunting rounds of 180eldm and the last of my 168 Berger VLDH.

Prepping 303B Brass for my Ugly Duckling Shorty SMLE III with the Bubba Fibre Optic sight. Using my Lee Whackamole using brass I did my weekend load test in, loaded back in early 2020. Chucked a split neck out, no surprise there even tho all the brass was annealed. 1940s were a long time ago. Here's one I have not had yet but watch for. Usually I get neck and sometimes body splits. Here is an imminent head separation. Guess it doesn't get a lot closer than this.



Going into my little collection lol...

Originally Posted by SmokeyJason

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What part of the world did you bag that?

So out again last nite and this redskin was a few yrds left of where I had shot the other one. They are hard to see in the long grass and he was in a wee hollow, this is by the tarn, I wonder if the yabbies(fresh water crayfish go walkabout at nite looking for insects and grass) because I've seen a lot of foxes there now fossiking about. These little 40 gr vmax, minus the red knob, just do not open up at the speed I'm getting in my 22 hornet, 2150 fps. You can see the dark spot where I'd hit him in the chest. Anyhow he took off like a bat out of hell and made it to the bushedge before running out of steam.

Originally Posted by Three O'Three

What part of the world did you bag that?

Victoria

Smokey me ol pal.if you can find any taipan projectiles,they make a 45grn jobbie,they should be the ducks nuts.very very soft.