Best .308 recipe with varget and 165gr bullet?

[AlexBreya]

Hello,

I have been reloading for about a year, never for accuracy, and have felt my simple, imperfect loads to be "good enough" for hitting milk jugs and soda cans at 75yards.

I took about 40 of these rounds i loaded to the range to see how they do against a paper target, and the results were less than satisfactory. Tried about [6] 5-shot groups at 100 yards. all of the groups ranged from 2.5-4 inches. And the gun was a Remington 700! sand bags and a harris bipod, 16x scope. pretty pathetic huh?

so i decided i want to try some loads for accuracy. I've hand a pound of Varget for a while, figured i'll use that as the powder. For the bullets, i decided to buy a 50pk of Nosler Ballistic Tip Boat Tails. 165gr. i have CCI and remington primers.

How many grains of Varget?
OAL of Cartridge?
Rem or CCI primers?

Was getting the Nosler bullets a good choice?

thanks in advance

[PolishMike]

I use CCI primers, nosler 168gr boat tail with 44.4gr of Varget. i don't know the OAL off the top of my head though. Ill check when I get home.

[smokingloon]

http://data.hodgdon.com/main_menu.asp

165 GR. HDY SP Hodgdon Varget .308" 2.750"
Starting Load
42.0 2582 40,800 CUP
Max Load
46.0C 2773 50,500 CUP

I think you should start all over and find a load that gives you the best groups.

[NRAhighpowershooter]

I load 39.5gr Varget CCI200 primer with a OAL of 2.850" This averages out to 2410fps and is excellent out to 300yds. I shoot the 165gr Nosler BT in my Rem700VS and it will shoot sub MOA at 200yds with this load.

[AlexBreya]

I use CCI primers, nosler 168gr boat tail with 44.4gr of Varget. i don't know the OAL off the top of my head though. Ill check when I get home.

Thanks!


What kind of groups have you gotten with these loads at 100 yards? what gun do you use?

[bcrich]

I have a 700p that will shoot 1/2'' 5 shot groups with 168g amax bullets (hornady) and 40.5g of varget with winchester primers and a coal of 2.850 they are long and sometimes jam in the mag but if you feed them as single shot then it will work. Also they are necksized only not full sized.....however this specific recipe may not give your gun the same results but that is the fun in finding your guns g spot!

[cocorador]

I use 165 Sierra SPBTwith 44 grains of Varget. I make sure all cases are the same length and I use an RCBS precision mic to measure the OAL. I'm 2 thou off the rifling and make sure my runout is less than .0015 on each loaded round. I also make sure my neck tension is .0015. I get excellent results with this.