Need Speer Load Data

[TenDriver]

Thank you!

 

[BigBore45]

what is the OAL of that bullet? also Length from bottom of bullet to cannelure? just curious, im thinking that bullet is designed more for a 300 win mag or 30-06 at least. might be to hard for .308 win. velocity's for hunting???

 

[TenDriver]

what is the OAL of that bullet? also Length from bottom of bullet to cannelure? just curious, im thinking that bullet is designed more for a 300 win mag or 30-06 at least. might be to hard for .308 win. velocity's for hunting???

1.178 OAL

0.486 base to cannelure

I have no clue what they are designed for. A friend bought them, and the powder at the height of the panic. I took on loading them since he couldn't get anything done with his Lee Loader. If they were mine I'd try to swap them for Sierra GameKings or Hornady SSTs.

 

[BigBore45]

i have 180 gr. sierra soft points and the OAL is the same but from the base to middle cannlure is .458 . they fit right at the cannlure.

 

[BigBore45]

what lee loader? how could he not do anything? just out of curiosity.

 

[TenDriver]

what lee loader? how could he not do anything? just out of curiosity.

A buddy from work bought a .308 Lee Loader for his Model 70. He made two rounds, the first one didn't chamber. For some crazy reason he tried to force the bolt closed, and now has the round stuck in the chamber. Says it hung up towards the base of the cartridge and after using various things to drive it out, gave up and took it to the gunsmith.

I told him to bring me the rest of his powder, some primers and the bullets and I'd load his ammo. He bought all this stuff in the height of the panic and took what powder he could get, hence the 4007SSC. It's been sitting since then and now that deer season is getting spun up, he wanted to load them up.

 

[gamestalker]

I have used data specific to bullet weight for many years, never had any surprises or negative results of the dangerous kind. This is actually considered a safe and typical approach when data that's specific to the bullet isn't readily available, but it also must be conducted as a work up.

The exceptions to the above is if it involves a bullet that isn't considered a cup and core design, such as a Barnes. But bonded bullets, chambered types such as Nosler Partitions, and any typical cup and core would be perfectly safe to use bullet weight and powder manufacturer data to conduct a work up with.

GS

 

[TenDriver]

Made the decision to load to 2.80 OAL and ignore the location of the cannelure since I won't be crimping anyway.

 

[BigBore45]

i agree with that decision!