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Question for you more experienced reloaders. I'm heading on a trip out to the Nevada desert soon for some plinking fun, and wanted to reload some .223 for my AR and some .308 for my bolt action. I have a bunch of brass of various manufacture (Lake City/PMC/UMC for 223), but because of the recent range closures in LA because of the fires, I've been unable to make it up to the range to test out my loads. Up until now, I've mostly been using Lapua, but don't have enough of that for my desert trip. Don't think I'll be able to make it up now to the range before my BLM trip.
So... I was thinking about doing a bunch of reloads on the low end of normal and just bringing those. I'm not planning on reloading thousands of rounds or anything like that, but maybe a couple hundred .223 and a hundred .308 or something like that. Do you think that would be fine, just for plinking purposes (don't need supreme accuracy or anything like that?). I have a lot of Reloader 15, so I was thinking maybe around 22 grains for my 75 grain Hornady HPBTs, and 42 grains for my 168 grain A-maxes.
Is this what the stores do for the reloads they sell? I imagine they just load somewhere on the light side to minimize the chance of any problems with the wide range of guns their customers will shoot the ammo in.
So... I was thinking about doing a bunch of reloads on the low end of normal and just bringing those. I'm not planning on reloading thousands of rounds or anything like that, but maybe a couple hundred .223 and a hundred .308 or something like that. Do you think that would be fine, just for plinking purposes (don't need supreme accuracy or anything like that?). I have a lot of Reloader 15, so I was thinking maybe around 22 grains for my 75 grain Hornady HPBTs, and 42 grains for my 168 grain A-maxes.
Is this what the stores do for the reloads they sell? I imagine they just load somewhere on the light side to minimize the chance of any problems with the wide range of guns their customers will shoot the ammo in.
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