Can't find load data for Sierra matching 150 grain.
- Thread starter Chago
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I'll be stupid and assume its .308
http://www.6mmbr.citymaker.com/f/Sierra308Win.pdf
http://www.6mmbr.citymaker.com/f/Sierra308Win.pdf
Depends on your lot of powder, brass, primer, OAL, chamber dimensions, throat dimensions, and bore diameter.
You load for the bullet weight, not who made it. Think IMR4064. Varget will do though.
What rifle and what are you doing with the it? No point paying for match bullets if the rifle isn't up to shooting 'em well. Do not even think about hunting anything but varmints with match bullets.
Your 5 are not hot. They're well below max. However, you need to work up the load from the minimum and go up by half a grain to the max load. Not just pick a few and hope.
What rifle and what are you doing with the it? No point paying for match bullets if the rifle isn't up to shooting 'em well. Do not even think about hunting anything but varmints with match bullets.
Your 5 are not hot. They're well below max. However, you need to work up the load from the minimum and go up by half a grain to the max load. Not just pick a few and hope.
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as LUTNIT said there are variables... and never take a single reloading source as a be all end all... hodgdon shows max at 46.5 (c) berger manual says 45.1g
so as u can see there is quite a spread.. work up slowly and watch for pressure signes..
i had one rifle (223) that even with the case full and load compressed, didnt show any pressure signs IIRC its was 3ish grains over the highest published max in any of my data books+
another example - berger manual - 284win 168gn bullet - 53.4gn hodgdon - 58gn...
No reason why any of those loads should be considered "hot," or even close to "hot."
What the modern loading books show as "Maximum," is actually the amount of powder considered by them as their normal, full power load. Until, I think it was at least the 1980s, the loading charts only showed one powder charge for any one given cartridge and bullet weight. They usually suggested that the first loading should be dropped down a bit and we would drop about 3 or 4% off the given load for one or two cartridges and if all looked good, we would just go to their given charge of powder.
I am looking at a du Pont loading chart of the 308, with 150 grain bullets. I don't know the date of this du Pont chart with only one powder charge for each type of powder, but on the front is printed, New Edition.
They don't show Varget, but of the IMR types that are shown, the du Pont chart's one load, is greater than what is shown as Max, in the chart given on this posting.
These old charts were used exclusively, by all hand loaders in north America, for a lot of trouble free years.
