The Load

[I Dont Care About You]

This brought a chuckle to me as I bought a pound of it about 20 years ago because practically no-one was using it outside of for shotgun shells. "They" all said that there are no rifle loads because it's not safe for use in rifles - that was enough for me to try it. I played a very little with it and still have at least 90% of it.

I tried it in the 351 WSL and a couple of other cartridges, all with cast bullets. In the 303 Brit (and 308 Win), 15.0 grs under a 200 gr bullet averaged about 1400 fps.

See now that might be useful to me as I have a 303 and about a hundred 200gr cast lead bullets w gas checks.

 

[migrant hunter]

Ringing steel with these kind of loads is a lot of fun, especially im milsurps.

 

[OkayShooter]

Ringing steel with these kind of loads is a lot of fun, especially im milsurps.

Yup. I grabbed a wack of 123grn .311 and been making 303 plinking rounds. I dunno the velocity but decided to take a quick shot at 25 with it. Rang my gong better than 9mm.

 

[kjohn]

"Did he blow the garand up or wreck the gas system with powder that is too slow?"

In reply to the question, his Dad told me that he didn't do the reloading, somebody had already loaded these rounds, or this round. The young fellow just didn't know about Garands being a tad fussy about loads.

 

[mudgunner49]

So you can speak to him from the grave. He died in 1996.

Well he's a pretty lively dead guy then as he still posts regularly on a couple of forums - maybe there's really good wireless in the afterlife.

Obviously we are talking about different folks. I stand by my comments - the Ed Harris I am referring was never in the military however he did have a significant history with Ruger as an engineer, among other things. He is the author of the article referred to about "The Load"...

 

[mudgunner49]

^^^^ flex much?

I tried it in 308 and had to back off to12gr . But from my Savage 12, it gave me 3/4-1" @ 100.

How's that??