Does anyone else find that reloading .308 ammo is a major pain?
First of all, most of my .308 rifles have refused to shoot factory ammo with any degree of accuracy. I can not use off the shelf soft point ammo for hunting with any 308 I own due to garbage can lid sized groups. Military surplus shoots a little better but not usually bragging sized groups. I was truly shocked and delighted that my TC Compass rifle would shoot Wolf into less than 2" groups.
I reload about 50 calibers, give or take, and I have zero problems with most of them.
I have reloaded hundreds of thousands of pistol rounds without a hiccup. .32ACP to .44mag and all of them shoot to sights and go bang every time.
I can reload .303 using 7.62x54 Russian dies, neck size them, charge them and seat a bullet and they shoot like a champ! I don't even have proper dies and they work fine.
I can crank out .223 like it was popcorn and it works in each rifle and shoots accurately in all of them.
The same for 30-06. I have been reloading that caliber to a standard recipe for 50 years and never a bobble or complaint. The rounds work in any rifle I shove them into and shoot accurately.
I do .308 buy the numbers and what do I get? Rounds won't chamber even when full length resized. Bolt will close on resized rounds but not on rounds with a bullet seated. Cases get stuck in the reloading dies even when properly lubed. And worst of all, no reload that works in one 308 will shoot accurately in any other .308!
I have been working on this round for 4 decades and can not get it sorted out.
Am I the only one?
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