I walk into the Gun shop to buy powder....

Write down on a piece of paper 3-5 powders that you have load data for your .180 gr bullets. That way if they don't have stock on the one you want, you know the other powders that you can load with. .308 has lots of powder choices.
 
No. You will go broke. take a bullet and load it with whatever appropriate powder you have chosen. work the load, from bottom to the top in 1gr increments.
There is a little bit of fudging that can be done. sometimes its the length of the bullet, sometimes its the powder charge, sometimes its a powder primer combination that will make the difference.
Powder isn't cheap. buy a pound, see what comes of it. if you get good results, tweak your loads to get better results. If everything about it was terrible, then switch powder.

Get a notebook. record everything you do. If you are new to reloading, there may be something you discover in the next few months you will want to look back on in a few years. There are many other valid and worthy reasons to have a log book.
welcome to reloading!

I gotta do this , seems like good advice
 
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