308 help!

[wizard1911]

I thought I had all the parts and pieces to start reloading 308. I'm using a Lee turret press with the auto disk. Using two 1.57 disks, I can't reach even the minimum. I have tried four powders, H4895, IMR8208, Varget and CFE223. The H4895 comes the closest but is still .5g below minimum. My charges weigh consistently with everything but the Varget. There is no powder left in the powder charging die or riser and the double disks line up. If there is someone using a Lee turret press with the auto double disk setup, let me know how you're doing 308's. I am considering the Lee drum unit but I wanted to get some advice first.

 

[rcmodel]

Mmmmmm?

Buy a real rifle powder measure???

That's all I got!

rc

 

[LiveLife]

I double stacked the adjustable charge bars by filing the slide tabs of one charge bar (see yellow arrows in the picture below) and use with double disk kit (tape the sides to keep the charge bars together).

I metered up to around 47 grains of I4895/H4895/Varget and 48 grains of RL15 for .308 loads and I was not maxed out on adjustments.

 

[243winxb]

http://leeprecision.net/support/index.php?/Knowledgebase/List/Index/27/powder-handling Have a look here.

Auto-Disk and Rifle charging

Posted by on 20 October 2011 03:39 PM

The Auto-Disk and Pro Auto-Disk powder measures are primarily designed to charge handgun cases. This is due to the capacity that these measures drop. Even the largest cavity is not enough to charge rifle cases larger than .223 sized. With the double disk kit, you should be able to charge .308 sized cases.

We do offer the*Short Charging die (for cases .860" to 1.760" long),*and*Long*Charging die (for cases 1.760" to 2.620" long)*which allows the measures to be used for charging rifle cases, and it works in the same manner as the Powder Through Expander dies from our handgun die sets. The primary difference is that this die does not expand the case mouth.

To properly charge rifle cases, we highly recommend the use of our Auto-Drum*Powder Measure (# 90811) as opposed to the Auto-Disk measures. This measure has the capacity to charge very large rifle cases in a single throw. One should remember however, that it is necessary to wait briefly when the case engages the measure so that larger amounts of powder have ample time to drop into the case.*

 

[evtSmtx]

or, DANGER IF YOU CAN'T COUNT, set the disks to throw 1/2 or a 1/3 of what you need and pull the handle multiple times. BEWARE OVERCHARGING

 

[243winxb]

Lee Auto-Drum Powder Measure

Mr. Lee recommend this.

 

[BigBore45]

Drill out one of the holes on the disk as large as you can.

 

[Mauser69]

In my opinion, you are trying to use the wrong tool for the job. Personally I would never even consider using an auto measure to load most rifle cartridges. You need a decent manual throw measure, a trickler, and a good scale.

 

[savagemann]

or, DANGER IF YOU CAN'T COUNT, set the disks to throw 1/2 or a 1/3 of what you need and pull the handle multiple times. BEWARE OVERCHARGING

I highly recommend AGAINST ever doing anything like this.

 

[macgrumpy]

My guess would be that the powder charge die isn't seated down far enough.

 

[25-5]

Beam scale
Powder trickler
Dump till close then trickle the rest.
Hope this is for a bolt gun.