shad0wfax
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kparker wrote:
1) Yes, my definition of "decent" means at least as good as Midway's price if not better. (especially since Midway's stuff is USA made and made recently, whereas we're talking about much older foreign surplus here...)
2) My loads are at NATO pressures or just slightly (and I mean a few tenths of a grain hotter) than NATO pressures. No, I don't have a strain gauge or copper slugs so I can't give you exact amounts, but I try to keep my loads on par with NATO. I am shooting old NATO brass and my dies are Forster National Match dies (which are NATO full-length size, not .308 Win full-length size). My firearm can shoot both .308 win and NATO stuff, but it seems to like the NATO stuff better.
IMR 4895 does a good job at keeping the pressures low with decent velocities for the 147 to 168 gr bullets. H-4895 is a bit slower and a bit lower pressure.
kparker wrote:
Just to clarify, you define "decent" as "lower than the lowest price anyone's seen recently"? Not to quibble over wording too much, but your definition of "decent" is much more stringent than mine--that would be something more like "fabulous" in my book!So heck yeah, if you find something at that price, I'd love to join the stampede buying it!!! (After you've bought all you can manage, of course!)
Regarding this:
How does your "slightly under-max" load compare to the standard NATO one? I.e. am I right in assuming it's a bit hotter than the military load and by extrapolation one might get perhaps more than 9 reloads per cartridge? (I'm about to start doing this myself, and plan to duplicate the std NATO load as close as I can, that's why I'm wondering.)
1) Yes, my definition of "decent" means at least as good as Midway's price if not better. (especially since Midway's stuff is USA made and made recently, whereas we're talking about much older foreign surplus here...)
2) My loads are at NATO pressures or just slightly (and I mean a few tenths of a grain hotter) than NATO pressures. No, I don't have a strain gauge or copper slugs so I can't give you exact amounts, but I try to keep my loads on par with NATO. I am shooting old NATO brass and my dies are Forster National Match dies (which are NATO full-length size, not .308 Win full-length size). My firearm can shoot both .308 win and NATO stuff, but it seems to like the NATO stuff better.
IMR 4895 does a good job at keeping the pressures low with decent velocities for the 147 to 168 gr bullets. H-4895 is a bit slower and a bit lower pressure.
