Texas4x4hoe
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- Dec 16, 2010
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Going to be a little long winded but here goes. So I'm working up a load for my Savage FP-SR 16" bbl in .308 Win. I'm working with some of the 178gr Hornady ELD-X. I have some MKE head stamped 7.62 NATO brass and so far in reading, the start loads are about the same with a reduced max for 7.62. So I started with 35.0 grains of Varget with the bullet seated 0.025" off of the lands and it was 2087 fps and the case stuck in the chamber. The Hornady manual shows speeds for a 22" bbl so my 16" barrel shouldn't be that close to 2100 for the 35gr load I wouldn't think. Could this just be because the case capacity is so much smaller? Not sure where to go from here.