Thread: First crack at reloading

Originally Posted by muka88

I have short barrel syndrome, give me back my velocity! haha

Well, one aspect to look at is what the round is going to be used for. For instance due to my mountain terrain my shooting range is only 120 meters long, so when I load 308 Winchester/7.62 NATO, I am a couple of grains off of max loads and clock high 2500 to low 2600 feet per second and that works just fine. In this case I'm not sending a 308 bullet 800-1000 meters down range so why waste money on a max load? If I need to do that I have my "war reserve" of a couple of thousands rounds of 7.62 NATO surplus ammo.