I’m new to reloading and wondering what is the best brass , bullets , powder. Any info appreciated I’m staring with 308, plan to load 6.8 western , 28 Nosler ,
Welcome to the community!
Have you listened to the most recent podcast/ Man cast from earlier this week? Jim goes into some detail regarding this and some of these questions.
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Hey Josh!
For brass, I’d start with cheap Hornady brass. It’s likely you’ll make mistakes on your first 4-5 batches, so make it on the cheap stuff. After that, Lapua, Alpha, and Peterson are the best.
For powders, you’ll likely want a couple reloading manuals or look up online to see what powders work for your cartridges.
I recommend staying with the Hodgdon Extreme line or other very popular powders wherever possible. Varget, Retumbo, H4350, H1000, etc but also N555 or N560 for some of the newer magnums.
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Perfect thank you for the info and your reply
308 Win reloading suggestions for HUNTING
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winchester brass
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Federal brass
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hornady brass
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lapua brass
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CCI large rifle primers
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CCI large rifle benchrest primers
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Federal 210 primers
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Federal 210 Match primers
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Speer 125 TNT hollow points (very affordable, easy to load, shoot very accurately, great for learning loading without burning premium bullets, absolute killers out to 400 yards)
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Hornady 168 ELDM or AMAX if you can find them
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Hornady 155 ELDM or AMAX if you can find them
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Nosler 125 Ballistic Tip
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Sierra 165 Gameking Hollowpoint
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Nosler 165 Ballistic Tip
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Hornady 178 ELDM or X
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Sierra 165 Soft Point Gameking
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Varget
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IMR 4064
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Ramshot TAC (most affordable powder on the market)
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IMR 3031
There are others as the 308 Win is fun and easy to load, but these are the primaries that I have settled on after loading the 308 for 25+ years.
I would just add to that, if you live in an area that requires copper or you just want to try the monometal projectiles, the Barnes 150 gr TTSX. I have had good results with it in 308.
Yeah, the 130 ttsx is also very good in the 308.
Thanks
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