Lowest price 308 reload recipe ?

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LeMerle

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Hi everybody,

Just want to know what could be the lowest price 308 recipe for a rem700 or m14... And second of that, where do you buy your stuff ??

Im trying to calculate how much its gonna cost me to buy my equipement + components for 500 ammo, but everywhere I go, its backorder (cabelas 95% of everything is backorder)

Thank you very much !!!
 
What do you want to do with the guns? Hunting? Target shooting? Plinking?

A Remington bulk 125gr bullet over Higginsons surplus WC-735 powder is an inexpensive general purpose combination that can work well for all three.
 
grouch said:
Your choice of plain base cast bullet and 9gr Unique or 16gr 2400 or H110. I get my molds from Cast Bullet Engineering and my components from Higginson Powders.
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Yep. That or a recipe like it, using a cast bullet and fast powder.

Ultimate cheap, but labor intensive.

I suppose there must be some surplus 'pulls' around, but commercially, probably the Rem. or Win. bulk bullets would be it for plain old cheap in a jacketed bullet.

Cheers
Trev
 
Cast bullets in a boltgun, sure. Cast bullets in an M14... not so wise.

Frontier plated bullets from Marstar should work for cheap, short range loads.
 
110 grain Frontier CMJ's (or some other really-cheap bullet), 13 grains of Red Dot, and whatever primer you can find on the cheap. Accuracy isn't great (3 1/2-ish inches at 100 meters out of a sub-MOA gun), but it works great for ringing steel targets. If you shop carefully, that should be solidly under $0.20 per round.
 
brotherjack said:
110 grain Frontier CMJ's (or some other really-cheap bullet), 13 grains of Red Dot, and whatever primer you can find on the cheap. Accuracy isn't great (3 1/2-ish inches at 100 meters out of a sub-MOA gun), but it works great for ringing steel targets. If you shop carefully, that should be solidly under $0.20 per round.
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is that work with the m305 too
 
LeMerle said:
is that work with the m305 too
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I dunno, never tried, nor have I read the story of anyone who tried. I would think, at worst, it would just turn it into a straight-pull bolt action (ie: you'd have to cycle the action by hand for each round), but I really have no idea how it would work in a gas-operated semi.
 
Cast bullets can be made to work great in an M14. Theres some great info on this over at Cast Boolits forum. I have been trying some in mine.

Several site sponsors sell 150gr FMJ bullets for .308 at fair prices.
 
I have some more Berry's 30-30 .308 CMJFN bullets coming in. They sell for approx $18.00/100 plus TX & shipping. Or some:
Berry's 110gr CMJRN M1 Carbine bullets for approx $16.00/100 plus TX & shipping
Pretty cheap for a plinking bullet!
Regards, Henry
 
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