Thread: Whats your chosen .308 load?

Hey guys im about to enter the world of reloading soon thanks to a fellow forum member whos kindly offered to help me out. Im not sure how to mention his tag quite yet but hes a good bastard! thanks again neil. Anyway I was wondering what the other forums members have had success with in their .308 loads. Ive bought some 150grain SSTs so will start there I guess. Cheers team

That’s what I use in my 308 they work awesome good choice

Be careful it gets addictive.
I use 125gn in mine so not much use to you.

Originally Posted by Shootm

Be careful it gets addictive.
I use 125gn in mine so not much use to you.

How do the 125s perform?

Originally Posted by Been Upto

Hey guys im about to enter the world of reloading soon thanks to a fellow forum member whos kindly offered to help me out. Im not sure how to mention his tag quite yet but hes a good bastard! thanks again neil. Anyway I was wondering what the other forums members have had success with in their .308 loads. Ive bought some 150grain SSTs so will start there I guess. Cheers team

Good one. To mention somebody just put @ in front of the name ie @Been Upto.

Haven't used one for a while but when I had one meat shooting I ran (not sure if you can get them anymore)
130 speer HP and 748 powder.
Was doing around 3050 on an old chrony out of a mod 7 rem.
Was never shooting any great distances but the load worked really well for me.


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@25/08IMP Cant thank this guy enough, even taught me some stuff about trigger pull which got me alot more animals on the deck thanks mate

Originally Posted by Max Headroom

Good one. To mention somebody just put @ in front of the name ie @Been Upto.

Thanks mate!

Originally Posted by R93

Haven't used one for a while but when I had one meat shooting I ran (not sure if you can get them anymore)
130 speer HP and 748 powder.
Was doing around 3050 on an old chrony out of a mod 7 rem.
Was never shooting any great distances but the load worked really well for me.


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Still making them, they still work and are still cheap.

I'm using 2206h with 150s and cfe223 with 165s...prolly just use 165s when the 150s run out. 1 load near and far seems to have the same felt recoil

Barnes 130gr TTSX, 2206H at 3000ft/s.

I just discovered the Belmont 150gr hornady soft point load shoots 5 shot 1moa groups, $125 for 100 rounds posted.
My reloads that i bashed together do 5 shots for 1.5moa and cost about $170 So im not going to bother loading except to use up my inventory and Subs

Great info here...for me....308 WIN....168gr magtech....first defense sniper round.......a close second would be R93,s choice...[I] have those as well.....the 168gr for a longer shot

ADI 2208 or 2206 powder depends on how short your bbl is. 2206 faster burn rate suits shorter bbl.... in theory. Both work great.
Pills 150 gn cup & core (Speer, Hornady Interloks, Coreloks, Partitions best but expensive) for bush loads and 165 gn NBTs or SSTs for longer range

180grn round nose hornady for bush load.....R93s suggested speer 130 hps for lighter stuff...awesome on goats,they are called "hand granades" for a very good reason,its a projectile you can easily load down to gentle velocity aswell and it will still open up as they are very soft (as is most speer stuff) soft=good in humble .308