birdmanflocka
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Hi,
I've been looking at a lot of posts but I'm new to the forum. I've been reloading 9mm, 45 acp, and 223's successfully for a while now and I just bought everything I need to begin 308's on my Hornady LNL AP press.
I'm trying to find load data for 308 Win using Lake City once fired military brass, CCI 200 large rifle primers, IMR 8208 XBR, and X-treme copper plated 150 grain flat point bullets. I found a lot of data for IMR 8208 using other bullets but nothing for xtreme plated 150 grain FP. The owner of the reloading store suggested doing 39-40 grains of IMR 8208 with COL at 2.6" but I want to get a second/third opinion. I heard to decrease loads by 10% if using military brass because its thicker, but I'm not sure if the 39-40 grains is factoring in the 10% decrease. Also, X-treme indicates on their website recommends loads with velocity below 1500fps.
I'm mainly using these rounds for plinking at 100 yards and plan to use SMK or Hornady FMJ bullets later on for better accuracy and longer distances. Thanks for the help!
I've been looking at a lot of posts but I'm new to the forum. I've been reloading 9mm, 45 acp, and 223's successfully for a while now and I just bought everything I need to begin 308's on my Hornady LNL AP press.
I'm trying to find load data for 308 Win using Lake City once fired military brass, CCI 200 large rifle primers, IMR 8208 XBR, and X-treme copper plated 150 grain flat point bullets. I found a lot of data for IMR 8208 using other bullets but nothing for xtreme plated 150 grain FP. The owner of the reloading store suggested doing 39-40 grains of IMR 8208 with COL at 2.6" but I want to get a second/third opinion. I heard to decrease loads by 10% if using military brass because its thicker, but I'm not sure if the 39-40 grains is factoring in the 10% decrease. Also, X-treme indicates on their website recommends loads with velocity below 1500fps.
I'm mainly using these rounds for plinking at 100 yards and plan to use SMK or Hornady FMJ bullets later on for better accuracy and longer distances. Thanks for the help!