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Saturday, December 22, 2012

The Basics of Metallic Rifle Reloading


Rifle reloading is a straight forward process with several steps.  In general, it is cheaper to reload you own cartridges than buy the equivalent match rifle ammunition. You save money and obtain the same results.  That's been my experience. I always full-length re-size my cartridges because I have several rifles chambered the same. The other practice many others employ is neck re-sizing without the full length re-size.

I reload my .308 Winchester cartridges with Federal brass, CCI large rifle primers, and Hodgdon Benchmark extreme powder pushing Sierra 168 grain Match Kings. My load is 40.0 grains of powder and an overall cartridge length of 2.800".

The desired end result