Newbie question: Xtreme bullet 150gr .308

[valleyboy3000]

Hi everyone,

I bought some Xtreme bullet 150 gr .308 a while ago hoping that I can use them on my Savage 16 .308 without do in any research (newbie mistake). Now after some research I realized these bullets are plated and shouldn't go past 1500 fps. Searching for some plinking recipe online, I found that other have use reduced pistol powder with these bullets as plinking round.. I have a couple of questions:

1. Is it ok to use a reduce rifle powder (IMR4895) like around 20 grains to produce these blinking round?
2. Why does others use a reduce pistol powder instead of a reduce rifle powder for plinking their rounds?

Any suggestion or recommendation on how to load these Xtreme bullet is much appreciated. Thank you...

[SmokeWagon]

Read through this thread, it might answer some of your questions.

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/archive/index.php/t-692670.html

Trail Boss chart, if you can find this powder it's great for reduced rifle loads.

https://www.hodgdon.com/PDF/Trail%20Boss%20Reduced%20Loads%20R&P.pdf

[chknlyps2]

Hi everyone,

I bought some Xtreme bullet 150 gr .308 a while ago hoping that I can use them on my Savage 16 .308 without do in any research (newbie mistake). Now after some research I realized these bullets are plated and shouldn't go past 1500 fps. Searching for some plinking recipe online, I found that other have use reduced pistol powder with these bullets as plinking round.. I have a couple of questions:

1. Is it ok to use a reduce rifle powder (IMR4895) like around 20 grains to produce these blinking round?
2. Why does others use a reduce pistol powder instead of a reduce rifle powder for plinking their rounds?

Any suggestion or recommendation on how to load these Xtreme bullet is much appreciated. Thank you...

I would not download 4895 unless you found a published load for it.

There is published data for cast bullets, I have loaded .308 plated Xtreme bullets in 7.5 Swiss starting with mid range cast data and it worked well. I am sure you will find loads for 4227, 3031, 4198, Unique and probably a few others.

Google "Ed Harris, the load" and I am sure you can find something over on http://castboolits.gunloads.com/forum.php There are several discussions on "the load" there.

[XxWoodsHunterxX]

Newbie question: Xtreme bullet 150gr .308

I've even told to always use Speer lead load data for xtreme bullets pistol and rifle.

[valleyboy3000]

Thank you everyone for quick respond.. Will look for some Trail Boss! It has the recipe that I can start out with..