Thread: What components do I need?

Originally Posted by greghud

Theres two ways to look at this question,
1st, if you want to replicate the federal factory load, you need to get some speer hot core 150g projectiles thht is what federal use.
then chronograph the factory loads as a base line.
Then load up the speer projies to the same oal as the factory loads with a charge of powder like adi ar2208, working from a charge of 44 grains to 47 grains, chronograph the loads till you achieve the same speed as the factory loads.
this will get you very close to the factory load.
why you would want to do that? I dont know, but none the less. There it is.
if however, you were happy with the performance of the federal factory ammo, may I suggest you could put the same level of effort and cost, towards a better quality projectile and instead of getting what you could buy for 40 bucks, you could have a custom load that will give you the best accuracy and velocities that YOUR rifle can produse. It will no doubt be far better than what you could get from a packet of $40 factory ammo.
oh, and it will cost less too.
greg

Thanks for your thoughts.

The only reason I was hoping for similar ballistics was so I could shoot factory or reloaded ammo with the same zero, but I'm starting to think it may be better just to focus on doing the best reloaded rounds I can, even if they shoot differently.