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What loads are you shooting out of your 16"?


buttonbuck

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Would be interested to read what kind of accuracy you are getting from 147, 168....whatever it happens to be.  Since I'm only familiar with a 24" .308  in a bolt I haven't done much looking into a shorter barrel and what kind of delivery I can expect.  Especially if you have any chrono data I'd love to read that too.  Thanks guys really appreciate the input so far in my brief time here this place is great.

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You are so right.  AND to boot I didn't have my thinking cap on.....wanted to know what factory loads people were using not handloads.  I'm not quite with the time frame to allow me to do enough reloading as I live in my car for work and when I get home the pile of 'to do' is large.  Would just like to get an idea what kind of accuracy you folks are getting out of shorter barrels with off the shelf ammo.  Diggin in to the reloading page....thanks for the heads up.

 

 

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54 minutes ago, buttonbuck said:

Oh wow nice!  Privi Partisan really impressed me with the few boxes I put through my .223 I think it was 55g super accurate.  Will have to check out their 308 thanks.

Be careful if you use their 6.5 Grendel ammo.  That was recalled.  That was the ammo where I experienced the triple fire from the Grendel I just built.  It works just fine with Hornady Whitetail.

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Using 175 Federal BTHP Gold Medal Match or Lake City M118LR 175 gr. in my 16" AR10T when I shoot factory ammo, which isn't very often anymore. Both are very accurate. I will see if I can find any old target pics from those loads.

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I shoot 147's in my 24" bolt and I'm going to give them a 'shot' anyway just to see if I can keep my ammo stash as is w/o loading up new stuff.  this gun is for dad and he's all 223/ar15 currently, but would be nice if i could hand him the new rifle with 500 rounds of go get 'em.    If i can get 2 moa I will probably just leave it be all he is looking at is 50 to maybe 120 at most for hog hammering and 2 moa will kill that all day long.  

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OP, here's some back-story on the ammo they're talking about:

 

Navy Small Arms Ammunition Advancements.pdf

 

Common range ammo, and an all-around ammo, for me is whatever 308 brass I have, CCI 200 primers, Hornady 150gr FMJBT projectiles, and 44.0gr of Reloder 15.  It's a nasty little combination.

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