Service rifle load in 308 win using Winchester 748

[Lone_Gunman]

I am trying to get a feel for how much 748 people are using for 308 service rifle loads that mimic the 7.72x51 military round.

 

[GunTech]

Military or commercial cases?

I use W748, BL-2(C) and 2520 to mimic M80 ball.

 

[threefeathers]

Hope that is 7.62.

I use 43 grains to drive the Berger 168 grain bthp. For many years this was the standard load in Service rifle competition.

 

[Grump]

I'm with 43.0. Using those crappy CCI 200s that so many people say are junk, and iron sights, my first 5-shot benched group at 200 was exactly 2 inches.

Hundreds of rounds later, it still performs that well.

This is in LC brass.

 

[win308]

Sorry, I just can't bring myself to shoot ball powder through a match barrel. Stick powder burns cleaner.

 

[Grump]

Spherical powders burn cooler and barrel life is longer.

 

[bobsmith]

I used to be a hgh power competitor using a very accurate .308 M1 Garand that I put together myself and a Winchester 70 built by Master Class Stocks. I tried various loads including loads using 748 but I always came back to a 168 Matchking with 42.0 of 4064 in a Winchester case with a Remington 9 1/2 primer. How that Hart barreled Model 70 would shoot!