Reloaders, please review this load

[DoubleJ]

I have absolutely no reloading equipment yet.  Just planning

[h20hunter]

Roger

[carpsniperg2]

A lot of books will vary and loads can change threw out the years in there books. What max is in one book might be middle of the road in another. It's weird sometimes. I like to check the loads by the bullet company that I am using as well as the powder company. Most loads will shoot very well with a middle of the road charge in them.

[j.galloway]

I like Noslers.  I like the Accubonds the best and Partitions second.  What I don't like is the $30/50 price on them.  Nosler Balistic Tips are $15/100.  I trust Noslers so I think I'll like the Balistic Tips

   $15 for 100? Where did you get those from? I just picked up 308 ballistic tips, Accubonds and Hornady Amax.

Accubonds where $29 for 50. Ballistic $20 per 50. Amax $30 for 100

Remington Core-Lokt seems to be the cheapest at $25/100

It just seems anything over 20 cal rounds is not 'cheap' to shoot (relatively)...

[DoubleJ]

I like Noslers.  I like the Accubonds the best and Partitions second.  What I don't like is the $30/50 price on them.  Nosler Balistic Tips are $15/100.  I trust Noslers so I think I'll like the Balistic Tips

   $15 for 100? Where did you get those from? I just picked up 308 ballistic tips, Accubonds and Hornady Amax.

Accubonds where $29 for 50. Ballistic $20 per 50. Amax $30 for 100

Remington Core-Lokt seems to be the cheapest at $25/100

It just seems anything over 20 cal rounds is not 'cheap' to shoot (relatively)...

My bad.  The 55gn ones were that price.  The others are $15 for 50  Still half the price of Accubonds

[MuleySniper]

Not sure Id want or need an accubond for any of my .22 caliber guns. Anything over 100 grains though Id stick with accubonds.

[DoubleJ]

In a .243, what's the lowest grain bullet you would go with?  87gn?

[bobcat]

I'd say 85 would be about the smallest I'd want for deer.

[wraithen]

ahem... shootersproshop. They occasionally have screaming deals but you gotta check daily or you will never get to buy them 

[DoubleJ]

Here's another question.

In .308 with 150gn bullet, 43.0gn H4895 has a muzzle velocity of 2742

Is muzzle velocity a direct result of powder?  By this I mean that 2742fps is made by 43.0gn of powder so, 63.767fps per grain.  So if I wanted to make that round go 2000fps for a kids load, I'd use 31.3gn, right?  Is there somewhere I can go to learn this stuff?

[Curly]

It is not a linear relationship for amount of powder to the velocity.  There is such thing as minimum charge.  And that 43 gr may be too light of a charge.........I'm not sure.

4895 is great powder for reduced loads though.  Check out Hodgdon's site on H4895 and there info on reduced loads.

[bobcat]

It is not a linear relationship for amount of powder to the velocity.  There is such thing as minimum charge.  And that 43 gr may be too light of a charge.........I'm not sure.

4895 is great powder for reduced loads though.  Check out Hodgdon's site on H4895 and there info on reduced loads.

 

Here you go:  http://www.hodgdon.com/PDF/H4895%20Reduced%20Rifle%20Loads.pdf

[DoubleJ]

Tomorrow.  Gotta go to bed and dream about this stuff.

Where would I find the minimum charge?  Hodgdens website?  And will the various books out there have more info than the websites?

[DoubleJ]

Thanks bobcat