Varget like many American powders is no longer being imported. Try and develop a load with a European powder like vhitavouri N140
Varget like many American powders is no longer being imported. Try and develop a load with a European powder like vhitavouri N140
I use Lee gear for all my reloading. Works well in 44mag, 303, 308, 45/90. Depends what you want to load your 308 for. I tend to use
9.8 grns of Unique with a home cast gas check 185 grn bullet sized to .309" and tumble lubed in Alox for 50 - 100 yd ranges and buy
factory for going out to 300/400 at Beckingham. This home load in a Howa 1500 give ragged one hole groups if i do my bit.
Typical as vhitavouri is double the price of Varget powder, its still for sale in Henry kranks though.so being a compete novice im looking at 150 - 155 gr bullet heads, cci primers i have some ppu used brass cases to reload
So how many rounds woukd 1lb of powder give approx??
Regards Matt
Weihrauch HW97 .177, Weihrauch HW80 .22, Weihrauch HW77 .22
Without curiosity, evolution would have been greatly flawed.....
Do yourself a big favour and buy yourself a set of beam scales.
Happy reloading .
I do keep hearing this advice and I will invest, my kit finally turned up and i will be off next week to get some professional advice on loading.
Ive got to say the classic loader works well so far I have
Cleaned, de burred, de capped and re sized the cartridges.
I used the cartridge holder and a drill which works well and us quite efficient.
The only thing i missed was to cut the cartridges before resizing however as this is the first time ive reloaded since their factory load (ppu 145gr fmj) im not to concerned and i have checked the length with a micrometer.
Next job buy bullers, primers and powder
So for target shooting 50-100m im going for this load
150gr fmj PPU
CCI primers
N140
Weihrauch HW97 .177, Weihrauch HW80 .22, Weihrauch HW77 .22
I use Viht N140 for .308. Best all round rifle powder I've found so if you move on to other calibers chances are N140 will do for that too. Like others have said it is twice the price but you get over twice amount than Hodgdon's for your money, so it's actually cheaper.
I started reloading a couple of years ago, after putting it off for ages. Once you catch the bug, it's the road to financial ruin. There's always something to buy, and once you've bought all that, you buy more things to speed up the process, because once the novelty wears off the monotony become tedious!
Good luck!
Cheers
Greg
Lee Classic Reloader. Great way to start. I used the .223 for months and results were fine. Other bits make loading speedier, but the kit contains all you need to assemble your ammo. I now have a press and all the bits for faster production, but still find myself using the classic for odd tasks the press and dies can't do.
Enjoy the classic.