What? Fast 308 Winchester Loads? 

I hate the 308. It made me get into reloading, One rugged hole with my first 3 shots. That was sooo many dollars ago.

I would love to see video around light/fast vs heavy/slower 308 gel tests.

Guy is fantastic, thank you for having someone who’s so qualified yet so humble and knowledgeable on the show!

After sighting in at 60 feet, I could easily cover 5 shots with a nickel ru-vid.comUgkxQt2uORDRfFOVSrO4idv4B90ThT6EOnEL ! Truly a pleasure to shoot! Scope was easy to adjust for eye relief. Only problem the varmints must have seen it delivered lol!Update: So impressed with shot groups at 30 yards I purchased a Hammers 3×9 with adjustable Objective scope! Now a true nail driver!

I shoot the 130gr TTSX out of my 308 for deer. It's laser beam flat and extremely lethal. Also, it doesn't scatter lead throughout your venison. Accuracy is excellent, and at over 3100 fps it absolutely devastates game. The solid copper will perform at extreme velocities with no worries about jacket separation. They always exit as well, leaving a good blood trail if you do have to track. I shoot through both shoulders if possible, and generally don't have to track at all.

Yes please, all things 308 Win are of GREAT interest to me. All things of that case family as well, but especially the 308 Win.

Thanks for the clarification. I usually shoot 178 eldx bullets in my 308 but I tried the 110 sierras and you are spot on. They shoot real flat and with less recoil. Thanks for the great information.

I did the same with a 308 for my 10 year old, 44 gr of IMR 4064 with a 125 gr Sierra pro - hunter. Was lookin for a low recoiling round that could get him into shooting centerfire and hunting. I don't have a chronograph, but it is listed around 2900 fps in the manual. Hammers game.

I did this with my mosin nagant sporter a few years back. It's a very nicely done rifle. Used .310 123gr vmax with BLC-2 powder & got 3400fps. Actually used hornady .310 123gr interlock soft points with same powder & it put holes through our ar500 3/8 steel targets at 100yrds.

I've done something similar in .30-06 with a 130 gr Barnes with fantastic results, 30 caliber rifle bullet versatility is wonderful.

Thanks for your service guy!

My good friend uses a 130gr Barnes TTSX bullet for deer here in Indiana and she has great success. I’ve considered giving it a try myself because most of the shots we get are 200 yards or less. Most are actually 50-100 yards. She (I think) loads with 3031 powder.

I have loaded the 130 barnes as well in a reduced recoil for youth whitetail deer. Works really well and I am sure you will see great results as well

Love this video as an illustration for a small frame or youth shooter. Many people just go the 243 route and then when your shooter gets older or gets use to recoil they will buy a 308 or 30 06. My way of thinking is get them one gun for everything and do reduced loads or smaller projectiles. Your recoil is a couple of lbs above a 243 and you can move up any time you want. For me a 243 is to small for Elk and Moose. If your shooter desires to move up to bigger game when they get older or more experienced they have enough rifle to get the job done.

Yeah, I'm glad Guy is on this channel too.

I use the barns 130 grain TSX in my 300 wm at 3700 fps for deer. It works very well it usually stays in one piece and exits. Most deer die instantly for a lung shot.

I don't have a 308, but my 30-06 with the same 125g Nosler is running about 3400 fps. Its my go to load for antelope out to about 400yds. Very accurate and they don't go very far!!

The 125 Balistic tip is an awesome bullet. I've shot a lot of 125 Speer TNT's in my Garand. Another awesome bullet. Working up a load with them in my 20" 308 AR that will be just over 3,000 fps.

I load the 125 nosler with tac powder and I'm getting 2950 fps out of my 16.5" .308 And it shoots about 1/2 moa. Was very little recoil. My 9 year old daughter loves shooting that load.

I loaded up 150gr TTSX bullets in 300WM with IMR4350 and got 3350fps MV. Took a nice Whitetail buck with it at around 150yds. Notable was the fact that the entry and exit holes in the rib cage were the same diameter indicating that the bullet expands very rapidly. The joy of this load is the 366yd maximum point blank range for an 8” kill zone. 330yd MPBR for 6”KZ. 290yd MPBR for 4” KZ. Now THAT is FLAT!

I've used this same combo on a deer, 125bt and 48gr of Varget. Shot it from 40 yards and lost 5lbs of meat from the explosiveness, and dumped the innards of the buck out, but it also didn't run far. So as far as recoil shy shooters, the only drawback I would see is the narrower window of optimal performance. Which your guest covered probably being at that 100 to 150yd window.

Been running a .308 with 125 grain Nosler Accubond with H4895 in my T/C Venture for quite a few years for deer now.

I really like this segment ..real reloader with a real load and a real gun. Not options for that kind of story out there

I started my son and daughter on .308’s, not having a fondness for .243’s for large critters, the .308 got the nod. 130gr Speer hot-cot SP, then later 125 Nosler BT… loaded with H-4895… 2500-ish fps from 20” youth model Remington 700 SPS’s.. Those loads flattening deer better than I would’ve imagined. The so-called varmint bullets expanded perfectly and killed consistently. I later moved them to 150’s ahead of RL-15.. staying around 2600 fps… soft shooting and very reliable on deer. I’ve since switched my daughter, now 22, to a REM 700 SPS 22” in 7mm/08… the 120gr Nosler BT at 2700fps, (still under loaded) is absolutely amazing… and she doesn’t flinch! 😉

Gracias por los buenos videos de siempre... saludos desde Argentina...

I am loading the Barnes TTSX with 47.5 grains of Varget in Winchester cases and Winchester Large Rifle Primers for my Remington M7 with a 20" barrel . Under an inch groups at slightly over 2900 fps . Excellent penetration on coastal North Carolina whitetails .

Another great video 👊🏻🇺🇸and thanks for your service. The .308 has always been a great one

I run 125g sierra soft point with 40g of ar2206h. Pushing 3k. Excellent hunting load

Good video guys, Jim Cloward was an awesome gunsmith, rifle builder and shooter, now retired. Old friend and one hell of a guy.

My father started using 125/130 in his 06, 50 yrs ago. They are deer killing machines. So when I started hunting that's what we loaded in .308 for me as a young hunter. I still use them to this day in my 06. Great bullet to 300yds.

Excellent video! I just got into reloading, and I'm developing my process using 308 Winchester. I'm currently developing a load using Lapua brass, Fed 210M primers, Ramshot Tac, and 180 gr Berger Elite Hunter bullets. I think that bullet is an excellent candidate for ballistics gel testing.

As I was watching this I was also reading an old Speer reloading manual. Looking at the .308 Winchester it says," An experimental cartridge known as the T-64 is precisely the same thing as the cartridge known as the .308 Winchester. If the T-65 becomes the U.S. service cartridge it will become an exceedingly popular one." From a 1954 Speer handloading manual. It seems Speer was correct.

Thank you for the great videos. 308 Win , 125gr nosler ballistic tip @ 3000fps. Shoots flat and accurate. I use it as a varminting load for caracal & jackal with a few warthogs also going down hard with this load. I have achieved 3225 fps (26" barrel) with faster burning powders without excessive pressure signs. Barnes ttsx 130gr should be an excelent load. I also use a155gr hornady ELd-m @2800 fps and works great!

Great video. I hunt 18" ruger American 308 with 130 ttsx at 2980 fps and works great

Thanks for your service in blue brother. I'm in my 31st year as a LE instructor in precision rifle (among other disciplines). We have custom built rifles that shoot 1/2 moa for work but, like you, I got lucky with my personal custom Remington rifle. It started out as a SPS tactical that I restocked. It shoots pretty much through the same hole at 100 yds. with Federal GMM 168 gr.

I am using a factory loading from Winchester (Deer Season XP 150gr) in a Remington 700 SPS varmint in .308. Compared to the other factory loads I tested it was significantly more accurate and the recoil is noticeably lighter. I have yet to handload anything for it so I'm sure there is room for improvement. That being said it was 1moa or better if the dummy behind the gun did his job. It nice to see guys very local to my area with such amazing content keep it up!

TL;DR - downloading the muzzle velocity to simulate long range impacts fails to account for the angular velocity at impact, which may affect expansion dynamics, and at low velocities there may be insufficient angular moment for stability in long, high BC bullets that are typically used for long distance shooting. DISCUSSION: Unfortunately it is not as simple as taking the same rifle and "downloading" the charges for lower velocity to emulate long range impacts. If you follow along in ballistics literature you will come across the discussion regarding stability factors, twist rate, velocity, and rotational velocity. You have two issues: 1) the rotational velocity (RPM) will be different in a bullet launched with a "fast" muzzle velocity (MV), but that has slowed at distance due to wind drag to say 1800 fps (a typical minimum 'expansion' velocity for hunting bullets) compared to a "downloaded " bullet launched at the slow MV to emulate the at-distance velocity. The reason is that the bullet's angular velocity at the muzzle given by AV = MV * (12 [in/ft] / TR), where AV is the angular velocity in RPS (revolutions per second), MV is the muzzle velocity in feet per second, and TR is the rifle's twist rate in inches per rotation. Because of this relationship, it is clear that the bullet's initial angular velocity is directly proportional to its muzzle velocity. What makes this a complication for this test is that the forward velocity of the bullet is degraded rapidly due to wave drag (supersonic flight), form drag, and skin friction, while the rotational velocity of the bullet is only mildly degraded from skin friction. Therefore, even at distance, the angular velocity of the bullet stays close to its muzzle angular velocity. Hence, in the experiment of "simulating distance via low MV" will produce a bullet that is at different angular velocity at impact than that of the true long distance bullet. Lower angular velocity means that the forces contributing to expansion of the bullet will be different. In a spinning body, the internal centrifugal stresses are proportional to the SQUARE of the angular velocity. We do a thought exercise of comparing the size of the stresses on a lead bullet at terminal impact velocity of 1800 fps with some angular velocities corresponding to an 1800 fps MV, a 2700 fps MV (e.g., 6.5 CM), and a 3000 fps MV (e.g., 6.5 PRC), here, the bullet radius, R, is relevant to the centrifugal stress, which is R=1/2 * 0.264 inches if we are sticking with a 6.5 cartridge thought experiment. Let's assume a barrel twist of 1 in 8" (i.e., 1 twist in 2/3 of a foot). The relevant stresses are: stresses due to impact in meat (a water-like density material): Fn = 0.5 * (density) * Vt^2, here Vt is the terminal velocity of 1800 fps. Density is a 1000 kg/m^3 and 1800 fps is about 550 m/s, therefore, the stresses due to impact are something like 150 MPa. The centrifugal stresses are due to the spinning lead (density is about 11x that of water): Fc = 0.5 *(density) * (2*pi * AV)^2 * R^2. If we plug in some of our numbers, we can look at how big the centrifugal stresses are and how they change relative to the MV. Since we know that angular velocity is going to be directly proportional to MV, we can see that the centrifugal stresses will vary in proportion to the square of the MV. at 1800 fps MV, we have an angular velocity of about 2700 rotations per second and using appropriate units in our Fc formula, we can see that the centrifugal stresses will be on the order of 18 MPa. This is more than 10% of the impact stresses, so it is a non-negligible contribution to the stress state acting on a bullet undergoing impact. an MV of 2700 fps generates an angular velocity 1.5x that of an 1800 fps MV, therefore, the centrifugal stresses at this angular velocity are 1.5^2 x more (2.25 X) which is a little over 40 MPa. an MV of 3000 fps generates an angular velocity 5/3 x that of the 1800 fps MV, and correspondingly a 2.8x larger centrifugal stress, which is a little over 50 MPa. As you can see, centrifugal stresses in terminal impacts at distance can have stresses approaching 25% -- 33% of those due to the impact velocity alone, and those centrifugal stresses could be missing by 60% from a low MV simulated shot. The copper jacket is holding the bullet together. The thinner the jacket (e.g., like in match bullets) the weaker the bullet is against centrifugal forces and therefore the more affected its expansion performance will be by the specifics of is angular velocity. The reason a lot of high velocity, thin-jacketed varmint bullets can "grenade" off of a piece of grass is that the ultra-high velocities generate ultra-high centrifugal forces that the bullet is just barely able to hold itself together against the rotational forces - especially in fast twist rate barrels. Even at long distances, the bullets are still rotating extremely fast that they easily expand/explode readily at the slightest impact. 2) Stability. The long distance bullets that are of interest for the "long range, low velocity impact" tests are typically pushing to the limit of the stability for the twist rates used in the rifles to shoot them. By shooting a low MV, the angular velocity of the bullet may be insufficient to prevent tumbling. It doesn't do any good to simulate a long distance shot with a bullet impacting sideways into the test gelatin.

A 30BR, a wildcat round based on the 308 but with about a .5'' shortened case, shooting around 34 grains of 4198 or VV 130 will push a 118 grain .308 bullet at very close to 3000FPS. But the kicker is that the accuracy is astonishing up to 300 yards. Custom rifles chambered in 30BR commonly shoot 100 yard groups in the 0.10" (one tenth of an inch) range and less. Competition level barrel life is 3000+ rounds but most of us have spare barrels laying around that we can install in 15 minutes or so. I use LE Wilson dies and an arbor press but have to "bump" the shoulder every 5th round or so. We use exclusively Lapua brass, Fed 205M and can wear out a barrel with 100 pieces of brass though the brass has to be trimmed to length now and again.

I load those same 125gr BT's over a reduced charge of H4895 in my wife's 30-'06 (03A3). She's taken half a dozen deer with those loads, which run around 2,600fps. Recoil is about like a 243 and we keep the distance down to 200 yards or so.

I’m here in Australia, and I load 110grain Hornady vmax bullet for my 308 with 46.6 grains of ADI AR2219 leaving the muzzle at 3232 FPS. I have taken a lot of fallow deer with this load, and as me and my mate say it keeps to the zero steps taken program. I have also used it to take a lot of foxes.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for listening to our feedback on testing at realistic hunting ranges.

I've loaded 155 Palma match bullets to very good effect for stretching a .308 out "a bit farther than normal". Powder was Varget, primers were Federal, and I'd have to go look up my data for the powder weight, because I will NOT do that from memory. Pretty reliable load, and after turning necks, and sorting brass etc. etc. I found that by simply seating the bullet twice, even with "standard" dies, and rotating the case 90 degrees between seating strokes, the runout was reduced to a very respectable .001 or less. I've used various presses, including a Dillon 550 (one round at a time), and an RCBS rock chucker ... thanks for the video!

Thank You for all your service Guy.

Varget and .308 are a match made in heaven.

Years ago, using the same bullet out of a .308 M14 at about the same velocity, a top load of 748 shot sub half inch for 5 shots. Loaded 100 rounds and shot a timed long range steel match. It was great to 600 yards, after that I couldn’t pick up the impacts. We did well, it was a team match. First and last time I fired that load, moved on in calibers. But it was a great experience. Some of the new ball powders with temperature insensitivity might do well and load easier.

Great video! Awesome to discuss the versatility of an old workhorse rifle like that one. Thanks for sharing!

Bullet technology has improved a lot over the years... Now and days you can get extremely heavy duty lightweight bullets that you can turn the velocity up on them and they hold together instead of fragmenting on impact. My wife and mom really don't like hard bucking cartridges and sense me and my dad both shot Creedmoors already buying 2 more Creedmoors and loading everyone up with a 100 or 120gr Barnes TTSX is what I do and everyone shooting the same bullet it makes loading hunting ammo for everyone a lot easier. I'm getting between 3100-3300fps with an all copper 6.5mm bullet so it's extremely flat shooting, very little recoil, and with the really high weight retention of an all copper bullet we're still getting great penetration. If I remember right I've only recovered 3 or 4 bullets and they were the 100gr bullets but they still retained almost 100% of their original weight. Great video as always keepem coming brother!!!

Re: lethality of lighter bullets. My dad shot many deer over the years with either a 22-250 +55gr nosler BT or a 30-06 +~180 gr rem bronze tip. Every one of the 250 fell in their tracks. Several of the - 06 dripped for a long run. Granted this was a long time ago and one man's experience

125gn accubonds great load out to 300 yards on red deer here in nz super light recoil and very hard hitting

Ballistic gel test 165 partition in decreasing velocities so we can make a call on max range for game; same test for a Barnes would be awesome

Ruger Scout 18.5 inch barrel. 130 Barnes TTSX projectile, 46 grains ADI 8208 powder (Australia) 2950 FPS, same load with 125 Nosler BT gives 3000fps, same pt of impact at 100 metres.

I have been putting off getting in to reloading now i am going to get a single press for 308 and 338 lapua..... Love the versatility of the 308...

Loading for grand child,130 Barnes ttsx ,50 grains Tac. 3/4 moa .great load, easy shooting

I've had a 308 since 1971 and still use hunting but have only used 150 & 168 maybe time for some Barnes 130

Great video. Appreciate & enjoy these. I considered a load like this from my 308 for my young son to hunt deer this year. But it is so large & heavy(Rem 700 vssf 26") so I got a Ruger American Compact in 243. But this is great encouragement for the 308 shooters.

My go to hunting gun is my Remington 7400 308win... I love that gun....... I haven't reload any ammo for it yet..... maybe in the near future.

This shows the versatility of the beloved 308 Winchester, I’ve great hand-loads for my Savage model 10 (Law Enforcement) with Nosler 165 BT, 168 Gr SMK’s. Going to be testing the 147 Gr FMJ-BT’s as well as the 175 Gr SMK’s .

130 Barnes. TTSX 46 Grains IMR 4064. OAL 2.775. Work with the OAL and grains and you may have found a good combination.

Long story short I'm an old National Match Shooter. Back when we moved from Garands to M1a's I developed a 125gr. load for the 200 & 300 yard course of fire. It was 44.2gr of Win 748 under a Sierra 125gr soft point, WLR primer in Winchester brass. I used my M1a for hunting with those loads and it did a fine job, most times DRT. So for my friends with bolt guns I started loading the same combo but stepped up the charge to 49gr of 748 for around 3100fps. It was just more of a good thing, lighter recoiling and dropped deer like a laser beam. Nowadays I substituted a Nosler 125grBT or Partition for the Speer soft point with fantastic results. Watch your brass and weigh it. Winchester is the lightest by 10gr, the rest fall in the middle except for the Federal, the're 20gr heavier than everything else. I always segregate them. I also do the same thing with 30/06 using CCI primers, Hornady brass, 125 gr Nosler Partition or the Mk319 130gr SOST bullet over 52gr of RE15 for just over 3100fps, a starting load no less. The expansion and performance of the Nosler bullets is impressive and all loads shoot to 1 moa, sometimes better.

I don't know squat yet, but your videos are always educational and I appreciate them!

My daughter has a lot of experience with the 125 grain Nosler BT in both .300 Savage and .308 Win. While I can reload for both cartridges I've pretty much stuck to factory ammunition in these rifles, mainly because my daughter just doesnt shoot a lot of volume. The .300 Savage load was from Double Tap ammunition and it averaged 3050 fps from her M700 Classic rifle. That load accounted for around 15 white tail deer in Oklahoma and three pronghorn in Colorado. She started shooting this rifle at 11 years old, and we used the 125 grain for recoil reasons. At 15 I put together a Howa Alpine rifle in .308 for her. I tried some Nosler factory ammunition with the 125 grain to start her out shooting. Going to the Alpine shaved a little over two pounds of weight from her .300 Savage. So again recoil factored in, and the 125 grain bullet was a great starter. It shot so well that I bought a case of ammunition for her. So with the .308 Win and the 125 grain Nosler BT at 19 years old she has three mule deer bucks, another 15 or so white tail, and one cow elk under her belt. One of the mule deer was a bit of a fiasco, but that was poor shot placement by my daughter. The bullet is a little too light for elk as well, while her shot placement was good for the first shot the bullet performance wasn't. It took far too many follow up shots with bad angles to anchor the elk, and the bullet just didn't have the mass to penetrate deep enough. I also have some experience with the 130 grain TTSX out of my 18" suppressed .308 Win with a MV of 2900 fps on elk. It will break the front shoulders on a bull elk, but doesn't create enough trauma to kill the elk. I shot my bull at 260 yards, and while I had no real issues I do feel I needed more velocity for better results.

I use 110g Nosler’s in my 20” Steyr Scout with H335 and they do 3050fps very accurately 👌🏻 Perfect for foxes and head shooting small game and deer at sensible ranges.

I used to do a load for my Tikka M55 308, 20in barrel. I used a 71gr Hornady 32cal pistol bullet run through a sizer die from .311 to .307. With a compressed load of Accurate 2200 I was getting 10 shot sub moa groups average velocity of 3980FPS. Always wished I had a longer barrel to get a more complete powder burn and higher velocity.

I've been using a nearly identical load in my 20" barrelled Savage Precision Carbine for years. 49.5gr of Varget and 125gr Nosler Ballistic Tip runs 3100 fps for me and produces consistent 5/8" 5-shot groups. I've shot this little bullet out to 700 yds regularly with excellent results.

125 grain ABs and 130 ttsx are in my brass. I did retire my Abolt after last season though; replaced with a Howa super lite after almost 40 years of faithful service. It will still go to the woods occasionally for nostalgia.

I love my bone stock Remington 700 Police Model . It shoots 1/2 inch clover leaf 5 shot groups @100 yards with 42.8gr Australian AR2206H powder and 168gr Hornady A-Max bullets . I’ll be swapping out the HS Precision stock for an MDT Chassis next week .

love it works great. just the right size

As a young man in the middle 1970s I killed HUNDREDS of deer with a Steyr SSG 308 loaded with 110 gr. Sierra varmint bullets. My dad owned a deer preserve, and he seriously needed to reduce his herd size. I made hot loads with those flat-base bullets and -- with the help of a set trigger on that rifle -- I made head shots out to 200 yards. Super accurate and flat shooting over that distance. The deer heads exploded literally like they had hand grenades in them (and I was happy to use my shooting and reloading skills -- and pretty high class equipment for the time: I also had one of the first Kahles scopes imported into the US at that time), to maximize humane treatment for the animals. They never knew what hit them.

I've used the 130 ttsx on a ~300 lb grizzly while caribou hunting and it did a fantastic job. Entered a front shoulder and exited near the off side hip. Fast kill. I used TAC referencing Barnes' data. I think their max load says above 3100 fps.

Such a humble guy.

308 with a 130 TTSX is an awesome match! It will punch straight through a deer or elk. Shot placement is more important due to less expansion but at 130 grains you should be able to achieve 3100-3200 fps. My preference is to keep impact velocity above 2000 fps. Frontline Rejects has a very good video on this bullet and it's expansion properties in 308.

Keep up the great stuff. This video kicked me off of the fence about my future gun build. Alot of info in a short period. Now im jonesing for the green machine in action with the various loads.

Love this mix... I have a 125gr Nosler load that is wicked on hogs...

Seeing a gun that has actually worked against bipedal targets is mumbling. Great video guys, I'm getting closer and closer to hand loading. Thanks for the motivation.

I’ve shot that same 125gr .308 Nosler BT and Varget in my .308 definitely cuts down the recoil! Haven’t gotten the greatest accuracy with it, but on par with other 150 and 165/8gr bullets in the .308

Dang! That'd also be a pretty nice pronghorn load!

I would like to see the gel test with the 125 gr BT, but definitely want to see some content on that 130 gr ttsx.

I found my .308 load with the Barnes 130 grain TTSX 10 years ago. Recipe Barnes 130 ttsx Lapua brass 46.3 Imr8208 well under book max. CCI200 Enjoy

This load is straight out of Nosler's #9 reloading manual! 50 gr is the most accurate load! Nothing new here! Nosler's manual is always spot on!

For a flat, fast shooting 308 try the 110gr Barnes TTSX. They are what I use. I'll post my load data when I get back to the bench. They are zingging and punch right through whitetail. They hold together like a champ. For varmints I use the Vmax 110gr pills I load for 300BO. The 110 Vmax bullets also shoot lights out. I'm running these in 1 x 10 twist 308 barrels. On another note I do have some of the 85gr copper bullets from Maker Bullets. One day I'll get the time to see how they do in 308 as well.

Basically any barnes ttsx light for caliber load is a good fast lighter recoil setup. I run the 160 in 338 win mag and its awesome. 120 in a 7mm-08 also shoots well, couldnt find any 110’s. 300 in my 458 win. All shoot great

I picked up an FN 308 several years ago. It shoots like a dream. I'll give that load a try. Maybe I can tighten up the group a little.

I love the 308. Hammered a 500lb elk at 483 yrds.

Used a similar load for ages - using Hornady 125 spire point and AR 2206. in a BSA Majestic.

That handshake!

Hi. I has a significant projectile failure with Hdy 130g SST. Basically exploded on a deer shoulder at 120yards. It damaged and lead shot a lot of meat. I found, on special, some 110 grain Barnes TSX. 50GN of 8208 and they work a treat on Chital dear. Accurate and flat shooting out of my 16" barrelled scout at 3100fps. No meat damage to talk of and great through and through penetration. I've since tried the 110 TTSX through a 22 inch barrel for 3350 fps with great accuracy but no game shot as yet.

I have a couple of fast 308s. 243 and 22-250

As a Michigan hunter 90% of my shots are under 300 yards 308 is my go to deer rifle. Max charge of varget under a 150gr Hornady soft point and they don’t take another step! 5 shots group under 1/2 moa so head shots on does are no sweat.

47.5 grains of benchmark, Rem 9-1/2 primer and Sierra 125 pro hunter in federal GMM brass 3082 FPS

I think you all are right, I need to load my own cartridges. I have a .308 carbine and really only want to hunt deer and pigs on the east coast. I need to load a smallish BTSP bullet with just the right powder to burn it all before the bullet exits the 16” barrel at the max velocity I can get.

I run 110gr ttsx at 1000 m/s with n530 powder in my 308s...works well on everything from roedeer to moose!

Excellent video sir. Hello to Guy Miner from north of the medicine line!

Thx for the vid, it was interesting to say the least

I picked up 2000 pcs of Brass so loaded up 500 rounds using 125gr loads to form to my chamber. I found max then backed off so I could shoot them in winter and summer. Which was fine cause at about 1.5 gr reduced they shot even better. Cheers

Excellent video! As a mil Sniper and Instructor I found this fantastic!

Best show and best technical information for load development! Thx

I just started loading 125 grain Nosler Accubond for my 308 win. I'm getting very good accuracy, I'm going to try them on whitetail deer. I've shot 130 grain Winchester silver tips in my 270 win. and have taken many deer with them, so fast smaller bullets is what I'm used to.

Thanks for another great video.

The 125 Nosler is pretty awesome 😎🇺🇸

Had great success with the 125 BT’s to lower recoil and gain FPS on my XP-100 and being a XP …dam accurate 👍🏼