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Good .308 Ball load

Six2Life

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Minuteman
Nov 9, 2008
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Austin, TX
I have a bunch of surplus .308 brass and 147gr bullets I'd like to use for a decent ball load. What spherical powder will give me good results? This ammo will be for a scoped FAL. I'd like it to be able to maintain "minute of man" to about 500-600 yards. I'll be using WLR primers.
 
Re: Good .308 Ball load

The "NRA" load of 45.5 WW748 always worked just fine for me.

Bullet quality seems to affect accuracy a LOT more than powder or charge weight, with the 147s.