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#1092719 - 09/14/16 11:09 PM
Need opinions on a 308 load
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tspike
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Registered: 06/02/11
Posts: 780
Loc: VA
City or County: York
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Several years ago I picked up a couple of thousand rounds of Sellier & Belliot Surplus .308/7.62x51 from Samco and HKparts. I was only shooting it out of my PTR91 because this stuff has super hard primers and it was the only rifle I could get consistent ignition with. I tried with my Rem 700 308, didn’t get a single round to ignite and with my M1A and FAL I could get about 50% to ignite. I sold my PTR and am left with well over two 50cal cans packed full of this stuff.
I pulled the bullets from 10 of the cases that measured an OAL of 2.78, and they all had an average of 43.2 grs of extruded powder. I inspected the inside of the cases and didn’t see any signs of the brass or the flash holes being corroded in any way. Just dirty. The powder looked good, and it burned nicely when I set a match to it.
I weighed each bullet and they were all 147 grain + or - .01, and are copper jacketed with a bi-metal lead core (attracts a magnet).
What I’m thinking of doing is pulling the bullets and reusing them along with the powder in once fired PMC and LC brass. I’m going to try CCI #34 7.62 Lg rifle military primers, if they prove to be too hard I may drop down to CCI no. 200 Large Rifle Primers.
I was thinking of charging them with 43 grains of the powder and setting the OAL at 2.8 and checking them with the headspace gauge.
Any opinions?
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#1093413 - 09/16/16 09:22 PM
Re: Need opinions on a 308 load
[Re: tspike]
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hino895
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Loc: Spotsylvania, Virginia
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I don't see a problem rebuilding them with new primers.
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