My 700 SPS Tac - A Few Years Later

[markm]

Thank you, taliv. I'm saving my empties and will start hand loading again this winter. My only gripe so far is that the magazine is not long enough to allow proper bullet seating depth, but I will load them to fit the mag and see what happens.

What bullets? If you load 175 gr SMKs (and you SHOULD do so), OAL isn't critical. SMKs can jump a long way and still perform. The load we enjoy in several .308s is 43.8 gr Varget, 210m primer, and 175 gr SMK.

[T2C]

What bullets? If you load 175 gr SMKs (and you SHOULD do so), OAL isn't critical. SMKs can jump a long way and still perform. The load we enjoy in several .308s is 43.8 gr Varget, 210m primer, and 175 gr SMK.

What is your C.O.L. ?

[Canonshooter]

What bullets? If you load 175 gr SMKs (and you SHOULD do so), OAL isn't critical. SMKs can jump a long way and still perform. The load we enjoy in several .308s is 43.8 gr Varget, 210m primer, and 175 gr SMK.

Markm, the Hornady 168 AMAX is the first bullet I want to try (with IMR 4064). The 175 SMK is on the list too and I have made note of your load recommendation.

Thanks!

[markm]

What is your C.O.L. ?

No idea... an average of whatever the load manuals say.... I say average because OTMs are never the same length. Messing with Depth setting when loading SMKs is a waste of time in my experience. Load to mag length or Manual spec, and go from their.

[T2C]

No idea... an average of whatever the load manuals say.... I say average because OTMs are never the same length. Messing with Depth setting when loading SMKs is a waste of time in my experience. Load to mag length or Manual spec, and go from their.

I have been loading at 2.800" C.O.L. or 0.010" off the lands for years. I was hoping you had a better recipe that I could steal and claim was my idea.

[taliv]

well, unfortunately, throat erosion means if you shoot much at all, your lands won't be in the same place very long and if you really plan to stay 10 thou off of them, you're going to have to find a reliable way of measuring and continuously changing your seating depth.

like markm, i prefer shooting bullets that aren't particularly sensitive to seating depth because i'd rather be shooting than figuring out a new load every few hundred rounds