.303 British Recipes

"...any low-recoil loads?..." There's no such thing. Except cast bullets or lighter jacketed bullets. A recoil pad will help spread the recoil. The heavy felt recoil with a Lee-Enfield is caused mostly by that thin butt stock.
 
You might want to send member Savage 12 a PM he was shooting a nice 1942 fullwood Enfield he bought at Eganviklle gun show Sat, today at range. he was keeping them in a 2" bull at 100 yards. I know he hand loaded the amunition.
 
To just reduce a hunting load a bit, use the starting load for the powder you use.
If you want to go into light loads with cast bullets, I am enclosing a page from the Lyman Handbook of Cast bullets, First edition.
Please note that Lyman is not so concerned about such things as case size, or weight, as many on these threads are!
Note that this loading page groups the 7.62 Russian, the .303 British, the .303 Savage (and obviously others in the 30-30 class) and the 7.7 Jap, for the purpose of loads and all the following loads are for any of the above calibres!!!
The following page shows more listings, with the 170 grain bullet, the 175 and 205 grain bullets. If anyone wants these loadings, let me know.

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reduced , light loads for 303

try 200 grain lead gas check over 14 grains of Unique...
very nice, light and accurate load...
a bit like shooting a big 22lr...
 
303 loads

Winchester large rifle primer...
Federal cases...
14 grains Unique...
200 lead cast with gas check...

Cheers and have Fun
 
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cyclone said:
Bear with me for one more clarification (perhaps): you meant cast bullets with their own gas-checks, right? ;)
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Right!...

Just saw that you are from Toronto...
There is a Guy who casts all kinds of rifle and handgun bullets with and without gas check...
He sells his bullets on the gun shows in Orangeville and Ancaster...
PM me and I will give you his Name and Phone number...
 
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H4831: What you said x2!! I have burned a pile of Unique and 700x in light loads with cast bullets in nearly all of my rifles, military mostly, but for sure a lot in my 30-30's as well. I am retiring (at least in theory) from my big shot job in a week or so, and intend on burning lots more powder.:p:p
 
polaris said:
Right!...

Just saw that you are from Toronto...
There is a Guy who casts all kinds of rifle and handgun bullets with and without gas check...
He sells his bullets on the gun shows in Orangeville and Ancaster...
PM me and I will give you his Name and Phone number...
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Sounds good, will do!
 
I use bullet 314299 with a gas check and sized 314. these weigh 205 Grs. powder is 19.5 Grs OF 4759.and the case is then filled to about 1/8'' from the top with cream of wheat. bullet seated at over all length of 3.072''
cases are resized only about half way down the neck.
this load works well in my 1949 Longbranch at 100 and 200yds.

Brownie
 
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Well here goes. I use SR4759 as well. I load 20 grains under any of my cast bullets....130 grn., 180 grn., 215 grn. without filler and it works very well. I was using filler but found no difference in the accuracy with or without. I also use the same powder load with my jacketed bullets when loading for target work. Dave
 
Fillers can give you rings in your chamber, which will make extraction very difficult. I don't believe the mechanism of ring formation (usually near where the base of the bullet is) is well understood (and not clearly explained to me), but I don't want it in my milsurps.

The fillers are used to keep volumetrically very small charges of powder against the primer, improving ignition. Some powders are not sensitive to powder position, and I use those.
 
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