Can I get some input on bullet weights for .300 win mag, should I go heavy 180,200g or do 168g HPBT fly true
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Re: .300win mag Hand Loads
Applications are needed for this rifle and we'll give you what we think is best suited. Start with action, barrel length, twist, and more Importantly what you'll be shooting, and how far are you feel you can hit.
Applications are needed for this rifle and we'll give you what we think is best suited. Start with action, barrel length, twist, and more Importantly what you'll be shooting, and how far are you feel you can hit.
Re: .300win mag Hand Loads
Rem700, 26"?barrel w/ 1-10 twist. Hunting large game and target shooting, at distance out to 500yds+, now I'm comfortable out to 400yds with Rem700 7mm shooting 140g Sierra match king 73g of Superformance
Rem700, 26"?barrel w/ 1-10 twist. Hunting large game and target shooting, at distance out to 500yds+, now I'm comfortable out to 400yds with Rem700 7mm shooting 140g Sierra match king 73g of Superformance
Re: .300win mag Hand Loads
208 amax. H1000, fgm215m, kissing lands. Start at 75 grains and work your way up. You'll likely find your hi node towards 76.6 to 77. 208 kills animals as well as it does targets
Or you could go 210 vld but its a little pickier about seating depth. But once you got it figured its sheer hell on deer
208 amax. H1000, fgm215m, kissing lands. Start at 75 grains and work your way up. You'll likely find your hi node towards 76.6 to 77. 208 kills animals as well as it does targets
Or you could go 210 vld but its a little pickier about seating depth. But once you got it figured its sheer hell on deer
Re: .300win mag Hand Loads
Thanks for the Info
Thanks for the Info
Re: .300win mag Hand Loads
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Aimsmall55</div><div class="ubbcode-body">208 amax. H1000, fgm215m, kissing lands. Start at 75 grains and work your way up. You'll likely find your hi node towards 76.6 to 77. 208 kills animals as well as it does targets </div></div>
I can vouch for this combo.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Aimsmall55</div><div class="ubbcode-body">208 amax. H1000, fgm215m, kissing lands. Start at 75 grains and work your way up. You'll likely find your hi node towards 76.6 to 77. 208 kills animals as well as it does targets </div></div>
I can vouch for this combo.
Re: .300win mag Hand Loads
I shoot 185 Berger's and re25 @2945 currently working on same load with re22. sofar getting 1/2 moa and little over3000 fps
I shoot 185 Berger's and re25 @2945 currently working on same load with re22. sofar getting 1/2 moa and little over3000 fps
I'm liking H-1000 with the 175 CC, but I'm using 81-82 grains. Phenomenal groups at 100. The speed is a bit over 3000 fps with a 23" barrel.
I found 180gr Nosler Bt or even better, Accubonds, going 3050fps using 75.5gr H4831sc, consistently & universally accurate in three .300wm rifles. I'm using it to bang steel at 1300yds until I find a pet load with cheaper, heavier match bullets.
I like the Nosler Btips for the ranges you are talking about. 76 gr of RL 22 with the 165 BT has worked exceptionally well in several 300 wins.
I have had great luck and clean kills with a 180 gr sbt and 75.6 gr vihtavori n160. Very clean, accurate and cool burning powder.
i just want the new nosler accunbond long range to come out! ima load a 190 gn pill with H1000, .640 BC are you kidding me!? "Ted Nugent" 
Also looking forward to the new LR accubonds. Will be trying the 190's and H1000 also in a 300 WM and the 7mm 168's and H4350 in a 7mm-08. Four boxes on order.Brock
I am also looking forward to the new LR Accubonds. 190's and h1000 in the 300WM and 7mm 168's and H4350 in a 7mm-08. Four boxes on order. Brock
Lots of good info here man. I tell you I have killed 5 animals with 4 different loads with my new AICS 300wm. I can without a doubt tell you that, given this is a very small sample size, that my 180gr SST Superformance coming out at 3150 Chrono'd out of my rifle has hit the very hardest of the three. Being: H1000 215 gr Target Hybrid, H1000 208 gr Amax, and a Litz AB 230gr Target Hyrbrid. I have had 3 occasions the SST between 180 and 280 yards does not leave the body of a Southern White Tail and 2 California Boar weighing 260 and 315 respectively. That bullet made a HUGE believer out of me in Cali last weekend the mountains of Hollister. That darn thing goes in and rapidly expands and causes so much shock that animals cant move. My two hogs had hardly any blood in their in tact heart when I field dressed them. The Target Hybrid however not the best choice for hunting hit an Alabama swamp hog at 375 pretty hard but he ran 50yrds and dropped. The AMAX performs pretty flawlessly. They are great great combo of weight and speed. The VLDs I have heard also hit very hard.
From what I have learned is with the 300 and these +200gr loads that are coming out more and more is that if you have a rifle that will handle the pressure and have a decent weight and length barrel to get full powder burn you will maximize the caliber far beyond the early days of this round where the 150-180gr's ruled. I choose to go hot powder and heavy projectiles to maximize what I think the 300 to more naturally be. A caliber that should be a 180-240gr rifle. Leave the little stuff up to the 308, 7mm's, and even the 06's. I feel the 300 is the gateway to the large bore sniper/LRH rounds that we are seeing in the 338Norma and Lapua, 375, and 400+'s. Cheaper to shoot and hits like a ton of freakin bricks!
Call Chad at Dallas Reloads or get some good HSM stuff or call Brian Litz and go hard or go home my man! If you do it yourself copy their specs.
Good Luck.
C
From what I have learned is with the 300 and these +200gr loads that are coming out more and more is that if you have a rifle that will handle the pressure and have a decent weight and length barrel to get full powder burn you will maximize the caliber far beyond the early days of this round where the 150-180gr's ruled. I choose to go hot powder and heavy projectiles to maximize what I think the 300 to more naturally be. A caliber that should be a 180-240gr rifle. Leave the little stuff up to the 308, 7mm's, and even the 06's. I feel the 300 is the gateway to the large bore sniper/LRH rounds that we are seeing in the 338Norma and Lapua, 375, and 400+'s. Cheaper to shoot and hits like a ton of freakin bricks!
Call Chad at Dallas Reloads or get some good HSM stuff or call Brian Litz and go hard or go home my man! If you do it yourself copy their specs.
Good Luck.
C
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300WM, 230gr Berger OTM Tactical, Fed 215M, 73.0 gr H-1000, Norma brass, 0.005" behind the lands. Consumer chronographs suck. Based on ballistic performance I'm guessing about 2750 fps. I'm actually a little over 73.0 now, edging into sticky bolt land. New-ish 26" barrel (second hand, slightly used, obviously a lapped high quality barrel, reported as "9 rounds fired"). An email from Berger said 72.9 gr max = just over 2700 fps. Start lower, YMMV, don't blow shit up, etc etc. Best downrange wind performance and energy retention I could find. Anecdotal evidence elsewhere for good terminal performance even at range.
Hard to find 'em right now.
Hard to find 'em right now.
Yup this will do the trick great advice for your set up. .208 Amax is a great round. My load is at 76.8 gr of H1000.
