I'm fairly new into reloading. I've been loading .45 ACP and decided to try reloading some of the .308 Win brass that I've been saving.
I'm loading for a DPMS LR-308L with a .308 Win chamber. Most of my brass is Prvi Partisan, that has been run through my rifle. All of it is headstamped .308 Win. Primers are CCI large rifle and I'm using Varget. Bullets are 168 gr Hornaday BTHP. I am weighing each charge individually right now.
Hornaday shows 44.0 as the max load. Lyman shows 41.0 as starting and 45.7 as the max load. Hodgdon shows 46.0 as the max. It looks like that as long as I'm not compressing powder charges, I'm not going to exceed max pressures. After reading Sierra's primer on reloading for service rifles, I notice that the Hornady book also shows 42.7 as the max for .308 Winchester Service.
I'm assuming that .308 Win Service means 7.62 Nato and that the 1.3 gr difference in the Hornady book reflects the thicker brass and reduced internal capacity.
I stopped my test loads at 42.5 at I don't want to approach top end loads, but I don't want to be anywhere close in case I make an error weighing the charge. I guess I'm just looking for confirmation that I'm well within safe.
I'm loading for a DPMS LR-308L with a .308 Win chamber. Most of my brass is Prvi Partisan, that has been run through my rifle. All of it is headstamped .308 Win. Primers are CCI large rifle and I'm using Varget. Bullets are 168 gr Hornaday BTHP. I am weighing each charge individually right now.
Hornaday shows 44.0 as the max load. Lyman shows 41.0 as starting and 45.7 as the max load. Hodgdon shows 46.0 as the max. It looks like that as long as I'm not compressing powder charges, I'm not going to exceed max pressures. After reading Sierra's primer on reloading for service rifles, I notice that the Hornady book also shows 42.7 as the max for .308 Winchester Service.
I'm assuming that .308 Win Service means 7.62 Nato and that the 1.3 gr difference in the Hornady book reflects the thicker brass and reduced internal capacity.
I stopped my test loads at 42.5 at I don't want to approach top end loads, but I don't want to be anywhere close in case I make an error weighing the charge. I guess I'm just looking for confirmation that I'm well within safe.