I recently purchased a 6BR for PRS use. I have never shot this round before so I had to buy new brass and all the reloading equipment (I have never reloaded). All the loads I have found online assume you are shooting once fired brass. How should I load my virgin brass?

The load I'm planning on:

Powder - Varget Powder weight - 29.6-30.4 grains Bullet: Berger 105 Hybrid target Primers: CCI 450 Brass: Lapua 6BR Remington Bullet Jump: 0.020-0.035

Here is the load data for the 35 HCR: Federal 215 Primer

Barnes 225 TSX w/ 65gr of H4895 2875fps

Hornady 200 SP w/ 66gr of H4895 3000fps

Swift 250 A-Frame w/ 64gr of H895 2800fps

It mimics .358 Norma Magnum so expect over 4,000 lbs of muzzle energy.

I ordered once fired .308 NATO brass to handload. This is the first time I've ordered used brass.

Most of it looks like Lake City ex-military brass. None of the brass will fit easily in the chamber. If it does fit in, it only ejects with great difficulty.

The throat, shoulder and base dimensions are within specs, so the body diameter must be swollen and out of specs.

How do I reform the casings or did I buy a bunch of useless brass? It looks like the manpower to remediate this is not worth it.

Thanks in advance.

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Looking to start reloading my own ammo. .308 specifically. 1. Do yall think it's worth it? 2. Any recommendations on buying a full kit or just buying every reloading piece separately?

I've got the 5" barrel and she's all fouled up and doesn't work. It seems like it might need to be replaced said a tech from Sig (I live near them).

I use fiocchi small rifle mag primers and H110 with Missouri Bullet company 250gn (18brn lead with baked hi-tek baked on coating).

I don't know that I've even put more than 500 rounds through this thing since I got it and they're telling me the gas block is super fouled.

Is it possible that the coating or powder is causing fouling in the gas block? If not, what else?

I think we Cracked The Code on making many Copper Plating Hand Cast Boolits. ] at one time. (https://youtu.be/pcjSMarI8sg)

A friend of mine is an enthusiastic handloader (the by the book kind not the liability kind) and with his Super Blackhawk he can cook up some idiotically hot cartridges. It got me wondering, are any .44 revolvers pressure rated to the same degree as the RSB?

I’ve been working on a handload for my 300WM and the grouping is great at 100yrd but my SD is 16. This is a hunting round and my normal shot is 400-500yrd. I want to get my ES and SD down to a good reliable load. Here is the load I’m working with currently.

Powder 69.5 RL-19 Brass Norma Primer 215gm Projectile Barnes 175gr lrx

Average speed is 3024 fps

Novice hand loader with brand new rifle. I’m about to go to the range tomorrow and dial in a new rifle and scope pushing out 145gr Barnes LRX with 49.5 gr of IMR 4350. I’ll play with heavier loads incrementally another day but I wanted to see if anyone here is going for deer or elk with .280 AI and wanted to hear your opinions, 145 gr LRX and 150 gr TTSX is all I have/can find right now.

I used 3.2-3.3gr Bullseye with Lee Tumble Lube bullets that I powder coated.

Shot out of a 5” barrel S&W 10-7/5

Seated flush with a light crimp using CCI pistol primers and Starline brass.

I have a box of these torpedos, but I can't find any discussions on a decent (subsonic) load for them.

Any help, friends?

I'm going to the range to shoot 10 different powder loads. I have 24" square white cardboard aiming points to print the ladders/impacts on a 400 yard range.

These are .300 Win Mag, of 65-72 grains, each load is .7 grain larger. How much will the rounds climb? Will about 24" be enough space to capture the various trajectories?

There is a 100 yard and 400 yard range, I'm planning on using the 400 yard range.

Thanks in advance.

Bullet is X-Treme 165gr rn seated to 1.150” 3.2gr Unique using a standard spp

Says it all. New to this would rather learn with one powder 1st.

Another good all around load.

Another plinking load that is effective for hunting as well. Functions just fine in GI and unmodified PMags.

This is my heavy load. It is a real thumper.

Hi! I inherited an old beat-up 30-30 and it runs Ok... but I have a question. I have seen lots of shotgun shell wax slug videos and they look impressive. So, what would happen if you pulled the lead bullet out of a 30-30 shell, left the powder the same, and added wax+bird shot to the shell? Would the resulting shell fire Ok, or would it destroy the rifle? ( Yeah, I know the flair says .45; there isn't one for 30-30)

Is this a safe load with the extra space that will exist if you crimp into the crimp groove? That would give a safe oal with 15 gr of h110?

I'm currently developing a load for an Ar15 chambered in 300 ham'r with 8" barrel 11.25 twist

First ladder test is 150gn hornady sst with Hodgdon H4198 In Wilson brass and cci primers. Powder charge ranges from 21.5gr to 24.5gr in .5 increments. Range data to follow on Saturday when we get some decent weather here in kansas.

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On a Dillon 550C, Remington 1 1/2 SP primers, CFE Pistol 6.6 gr which is a starting load, Rocky Mountain Reloading 124gr Jacketed Hollow Point Multi Purpose Round. Seated to 1.145. LEE FCD.

Caldwells Ballistic Precision says 1209 FPS avg.

DO NOT SEAT TO 1.135.

On a Dillon 550C This is a MAX load, primers ( Remington 1 1/2 SP) were blowing back and filling the hole where my firing pin hit. 6.2 gr CFE Pistol seated to 1.145 and crimped with a Lee FCD. Load had an average of 1019 FPS using a Caldwells Ballistic Precision.

Warning: Following Hodgons spec seating depth of 1.135 caused my bullets to be loose and not even fixable with the crimp die. Something that is very dangerous with this bottleneck cartridge.

This is a new "cheap load" for me. $0.36/each not counting brass.

I just wish X-Treme would actually get the 1000 quantity of the bullets in stock. The would drop the cost 5-6 cents per round.

Posting this since I have been struggling to find decent load data for Eggleston Munitions 200gr Polycoated .308 (but actually .309 dia) bullets for SBRs. 8" barrel, 1:7 twist, pistol length gas, suppressed.

I started at 10gr of Winchester 296 (H110 is the same) and worked my way down in .5gr decrements. All were 100% reliable except the 8gr load which fed reliably but did not hold bolt open on last round. I ran them through my chronograph and got the following data:

Sorry for formatting of FPS below. Reddit formatting didn't want to play nice with my Chronograph output. I cleaned it up best I could.

Created: 05-29-2017 11:31:35

Description: 10gr W296 Green eggleston 200gr

Temp: 76 °F

BP: 30.06 inHG

Shots FPS
6 1197
5 1241
4 1226
3 1219
2 1175
1 1241
Average: 1216.50

StdDev: 26.07

Min: 1175

Max: 1241

Spread: 66

True MV: 1216.50

Created: 05-29-2017 11:34:41

Description: 9.5gr W296 Green eggleston 200gr

Temp: 76 °F

BP: 30.06 inHG

Shots FPS
5 1135
4 1136
3 1122
2 1110
1 1204
Average: 1141.40

StdDev: 36.58

Min: 1110

Max: 1204

Spread: 94

True MV: 1141.40

Created: 05-29-2017 11:35:24

Description: 9.0gr W296 Green eggleston 200gr

Temp: 76 °F

BP: 30.06 inHG

Shots FPS
5 1071
4 1021
3 1051
2 1041
1 1141
Average: 1065.00

StdDev: 46.15

Min: 1021

Max: 1141

Spread: 120

True MV: 1065.00

Created: 05-29-2017 11:37:12

Description: 8.5gr W296 Green eggleston 200gr

Temp: 77 °F

BP: 30.06 inHG

Shots FPS
5 983
4 1029
3 974
2 1014
1 1094
Average: 1018.80

StdDev: 47.62

Min: 974

Max: 1094

Spread: 120

True MV: 1018.80

Created: 05-29-2017 11:39:49

Description: 8.0gr W296 Green eggleston 200gr NO LAST ROUND BOLT HOLD

Temp: 77 °F

BP: 30.06 inHG

Shots FPS
5 911
4 958
3 858
2 982
1 1056
Average: 953.00

StdDev: 74.61

Min: 858

Max: 1056

Spread: 198

True MV: 953.00

This shot sub MOA out of my Radical Firearms upper.

Case Length: 1.560"

Primer: CCI No. 350

Powder: Hodgdon Lil' Gun 29.5 gr

Projectile: Hornady FTX 325 gr

C.O.A.L.: 2.148"

Avg Velocity: 1,795 fps

COAL: 2.250 Powder:BLC(2) @ 25.8 grains

This recipe seems to work very good for plinking at 100 yards or less. Have yet to try it at longer ranges. Will more then likely increase load to 26.2-26.5 for longer ranges

Plated CamPro HBWCs. 2.7gr Titegroup. OAL: 1.165 (nearly flush)

This is my first attempt at the heavy subsonic stuff. This OAL is the longest that will fit in a PMag due to the rib.

QuickLoad

• 1.575" case length
• 25526 psi
• 1036 fps
• 96.2% case fill
• 81.78% burn in 12" barrel

This is my new cheap load. These projectiles are only $0.18/each as opposed to $0.30-1.00 for other .458 projectiles.

With a corrected bullet length of 0.865" and a case length of 1.575", QuickLoad gives 27011 psi and 1494 fps with 83.43% powder burn in my 12" barrel. Hopefully they shoot well enough to be my plinking load.