Share your 2021 hunting season go to loads

[bluejay75]

Late addition

308 Winchester- 1st Season Load
Lapua Brass
42.1 Ramshot TAC
200 grain SGK BTSP
2.822 COAL
S&B Primer
No crimp
Been testing this one all week. My most accurate 308 load to date. Repeatable.3 or better at 100 yards.
2400FPS 10SD from 16.5 inch barrel

To 300 yards this is going to be a hammer.

 

[barnfrog]

First time hunting with ammunition I reloaded. Pretty stoked about it.

.243 Winchester
Barnes 80 grain TTSX seated 0.100" off the lands
42.2 grains IMR4350
Winchester brass
Winchester LR primers
Don't have chronograph numbers. GRT calculates muzzle velocity of 3076 fps. 0.8 MOA

Update:

Magnetospeed Sporter indicates MV of 3130 fps, which should result in reliable expansion of the TTSX out to 300 yards at least. (Some say 1800 is fast enough, but from the recovered slugs I've seen I'd be more comfortable with impact velocity of 2300 fps.)

 

[rondaxe]

My Remington 760 likes 54 grs. of Winchester 760 and a 165 gr. Core-Lokt and my Savage Hog Hunter likes 45 grs. of IMR 4895 and 150 gr. Hornady Interlocks.

 

[Lennyjoe]

50.8 grains of Reloader 7 under 350 grain Hornady XTP Mag in .50 Beowulf.


48 grains of Reloader 7 under 350 grain Hornady Interlock in 45-70.

We’re stuck with straight walled cartridges here in Ohio.

 

[Armorer 101]

In preparation for my surgery/recovery from OH surgery, I built an AR-15 in 6mm Mongoose a few months prior to the surgery. It is a 223 based “cat” similar to a 6mm TCU shortened .050 to work in the AR magazine with 100-105g bullets. A light, light weight rifle, with light recoil and a very decent impact down range. I use 844 powder which is a bulk equivalent of H-335 with Remington 80gr FBSP bullets @3,000 fps, paying attention to shot placement. It has accounted for a yote at 75 yards, trotting through the back yard. It shoots .35 inches.

I am now off the “no shooting,” restriction, as of today. So it goes back in the rifle rack on the cart that I use for riding my fence line. This is the small but mighty thumper for the AR-15.

 

[brewer12345]

In preparation for my surgery/recovery from OH surgery, I built an AR-15 in 6mm Mongoose a few months prior to the surgery. It is a 223 based “cat” similar to a 6mm TCU shortened .050 to work in the AR magazine with 100-105g bullets. A light, light weight rifle, with light recoil and a very decent impact down range. I use 844 powder which is a bulk equivalent of H-335 with Remington 80gr FBSP bullets @3,000 fps, paying attention to shot placement. It has accounted for a yote at 75 yards, trotting through the back yard. It shoots .35 inches.

I am now off the “no shooting,” restriction, as of today. So it goes back in the rifle rack on the cart that I use for riding my fence line. This is the small but mighty thumper for the AR-15.

Been struggling with a frozen shoulder and banged up tendons. Things had improved pretty well by last month, but I was still being careful. Wanted to bring the 30-06 on the pronghorn hunt to get more reach, but I was leery of taking that much recoil while things are still healing. Ended up taking my 350 legend AR. I would have been comfy with a 250 yard shot, but I got the drop on a small herd and dropped a doe from 75 yards away. Handy rifle and plenty capable terminally. Can't get away with that on my upcoming elk hunt, so I will have to live with the thump if I get a shot.

 

[CryptKeeper5]

My "Go to" is my .280 Rem;

54gr IMR 4350. 160gr Nosler Partition. CCI Large Rifle primer. Pushes around 2900fps Very nearly 7mm Rem Mag velocity.

My Ruger M77 loves it. It's been the only round I've hunted with in that rifle since 1988. MOA out to 200, just over at 300 but has taken a number of Elk and Mule deer...and two blacktails up around Stevens Pass in Washington. Haven't bothered trying to "best" it. Just keep loading the same thing...in fact I still have a box of 20 which I loaded about 20 years ago. Shot them through my "new" Rem 7600 to sight in the scope and it likes that load as well. Can't beat it!

 

[JFrank]

270 WSM
140 gr AB
H4831sc
Fed magnum primers

 

[Mark_Mark]

View attachment 1037462270 WSM
140 gr AB
H4831sc
Fed magnum primers

nice! save me the bones for soup!

 

[JFrank]

My Daughter and Grandson went out today and got these boys. Both with a good old 30-30

 

[Spare Parts]

View attachment 1037644 View attachment 1037645My Daughter and Grandson went out today and got these boys. Both with a good old 30-30

The 30-30 is a legendary deer rifle. Close-quarters combat. Congrats to your family on a successful hunt.

Our .308 got 3 this year - a doe/buck two-fer (filled my tags at sunset on opening day in 3 minutes!). My nephew later saw a buck in the brush and used my rifle because it was most handy. Sadly, the deer did not feel photogenic - it was dark, and they needed field-dressing.

My nephew told me that if a buck is "chasing" a doe, then shoot the doe first. The buck is stupid and eventually presents broadside while trying to get the doe to stand up. That little tactic filled my freezer this year.

 

[Thomasss]

30.06 165 grn. SP Interlock over 57 grns. of H4831 using Win LRM primer ext. bullet out to 3.257"
M1 Garand, 30.06 165 grn. SP Interlock over 44.4 grns. of IMR 4064 or Varget and ext bullet out to 3.250
.50 cal. GPH muzzleloader with duplex load of 5 gains of FF Goex and 75 grains of Pyrodex RS under Hornady 245 grn. sabot and Win. mag. cap
.270 Win 130 grn Winchester/Browning SP over 53 grains of IMR 4451 ext. bullet out to 3.240

 

[Thomasss]

CryptKeeper5, 54gr IMR 4350. 160gr Nosler Partition. CCI Large Rifle primer. Pushes around 2900fps Very nearly 7mm Rem Mag velocity.

CrypKeeper5 don't sell yourself short. Many people consider your .280 a 7mm mag. Remington even called your caliber a 7mm Express at one time, but later changed the name back to .280. You can hit that 3/m fps real easy by dropping down the bullet size.

 

[Lnf Crzr]

375 Win with a 200gr Sierra and 36gr of RL7 Savage 99
Shoots 3 shots into 1” at 100 yards. I got new 175grs and 1680…. Yet maybe next year.

44 mag with 18.5gr 2400 & 240jsp Rem788-S&W 29, plenty

357 with 13.5 2400 and a Fp/xtp 158gr. Marlin Jm

58 Prb with 75gr FFg. Dbl rifle, out to 75 ish yds

 

[GoldieMI]

275 grain Gold Dot over a full load of H110 (thanks to RMR for these years ago-still shooting up the ones I bought)
~2000 fps at 32 degrees (1991-2007)
50 Beowulf 16" Barrel

 

[Lennyjoe]

Unfortunately I was unable to test the .50 Beowulf this weekend in Missouri. Had a couple of opportunities but well beyond the .50’s effective range and I didn’t want to risk a bad shot and losing an animal. Will try again week of Thanksgiving in WVA.

 

[Random 8]

Well, the 150 Interlock over 42 IMR 4064 in .300 Savage worked exactly as expected. One very large bodied buck, weighed 207 dressed, took one slight quartering away through the lungs about midway up the chest cavity and roughly level. Bullet exited with a beautiful quarter sized hole just behind off side shoulder just missing the heavy bone, clipping some of the heavy muscle. Meat damage significant but not extreme. Blood trail was short and epic. Second deer shot was a doe at near powder burn distance right in the white patch under the jaw. Vindicated my choice in woods rifle, I don't think I would have gotten the old Mauser with the heavy sporter .280 barrel up and around in time for this snap shot. DRT with largish exit hole at the base of the skull. Shot was at an upwards angle, as I was sitting in a hole left by a windfall to get out of the wind driven sleet and she was THAT close. Pretty sure she would have jumped right over me had I laid down. Love deep woods hunting like the old timers did!

 

[JimKirk]

.25-06...Barnes TTSX 80 grain 3680 fps

 

[Newfiebullet]

This fall took a 4 pointer moose with my 30 06 ruger tang. 150 yds 165 gr nosler pt 56.4 grs i4350 win mag primers. It was a thru and thru shot broke one rib in and another going out. Took a half dozens steps and dropped . Drt. Love nosler pt
3030 160 grs ftx 35 grs leverlution marlin 336
308 165 gr 44 grams varget
223 55 gr 24.5 grs h335 Tikka lite
Working on my 303 jungle carbine with 150 and 173 grs. Going to try i4895 and varget.

 

[lightman]

I hunt with a 308 and my pet load is a 150 Grain Sierra Pro Hunter in a LC Match case, CCI primer and 46 Grains of IMR 4064. This was John Wooters pet load years ago and shoots well in most 308's. I've used this load for years. I load 45 grains in the Wife's 308. NOTE: this load is over max in some books today!

I load these 100 at a time and keep them together in an MTM box. They last for several years and I always have ammo ready. I usually shoot about 5 rounds to verify zero and sometimes we have a friendly competition at the range at Deer Camp that uses a few more rounds.

 

[bluejay75]

This is the load I’m always railing on but it got the job done on this bucks last season. 308. LC blown out machine gun brass. WLRP. 44.5 748. JSP 150 grain seconds from RMR. 2520 at the muzzle. 460 odd yards one shot kill.