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Pikeman
01-08-2012, 12:14 AM
Planning on getting a Desert tactical SRS in spring and doing some pre planning. Looking for loads others have had success with ideally in same rifle. I anticipate 225 grain bullets. Most of the powder I use now is in the Hodgdon line. H4831 SC looks like a candidate and I already use that in 7mm mag.

abpt1
01-08-2012, 08:07 AM
I use 4831sc for my 270 good stuff. what distance are you shooting?

Pikeman
01-08-2012, 11:38 PM
Shooting way out to April at this point. At the property i shoot at we have a 100 yard pit to play in but have plans to hand metal plates every 200 yards out to 1,000. adjacent property has formal matches out to 1,000 but dont allow 50 bmg or tannarite. My retirement gift to my self is gona be an SRS, Moonshiner Rifle or one of Ronnie Barrets 338's. All the loads I found so fare just seem to be the same as max loads per hodgdon. I know max is not always optimum. Looking to see if someone found a sweet spot for this weight and powder.

Texas Soldado
01-09-2012, 09:59 AM
Shooting way out to April at this point. At the property i shoot at we have a 100 yard pit to play in but have plans to hand metal plates every 200 yards out to 1,000. adjacent property has formal matches out to 1,000 but dont allow 50 bmg or tannarite. My retirement gift to my self is gona be an SRS, Moonshiner Rifle or one of Ronnie Barrets 338's. All the loads I found so fare just seem to be the same as max loads per hodgdon. I know max is not always optimum. Looking to see if someone found a sweet spot for this weight and powder.

What are you retiring from? I myself retire this year, I want to gift myself a Bighorn Armory Model 89 Carbine in .500 Smith & Wesson.

Pikeman
01-09-2012, 05:59 PM
Retiring from being a Speed bump along the Turnpike in central PA. If I can find a thong that hold quarters I may become an exotic dancer ( no one would give me a dollar to dance and OSHA wont cover injuries from slipping on quarters that have fallen out)

abpt1
01-09-2012, 07:10 PM
LOL I bet our paths have crossed one way or another being that I am a I.T. road warrior for the state Courts and Pendot .
Widners has some good prices on mil powder.
http://www.wideners.com/itemview.cfm?dir=278|283|999 (http://www.wideners.com/itemview.cfm?dir=278%7C283%7C999)

deth502
01-10-2012, 06:25 PM
looking to get a savage 338, but im sure youll have your load figures out before i get mine. i have decades yet till i retire.

O.S.O.K.
01-10-2012, 07:25 PM
What's retire?

Here are a few: http://www.handloads.com/loaddata/default.asp?Caliber=338%20Lapua%20Magnum&Weight=All&type=rifle&Order=Powder&Source=

az_paul
01-17-2012, 02:23 AM
Similar story. My retirement gift to myself was a Sako TRG-42 in .338 Lapua Magnum. I have the Redding reloading dies and still have to come up with a pet load. Probably will use the Lapua Scenar 250gr. bullets. That's what the gent I bought the gun from was using. Not sure on powder yet, probably Vit.