Hello again every one. I'm back with yet another cartage to load and basic questions. Seems I have fallen down the reloading rabbit hole and feel the need to reload for every firearm I own. I haven't bought a commercially produced round for about 4 years now (Are their meetings I should go to for this? )
Onto the 300 blackout. picked up a barrel from a friend and built an upper around it, couldn't help my self. cut down some 223/556 brass and formed them, trimmed to length, camphored and deburred, then tumbled clean.
Looked through my Hornady reloading manual and Hodgdon's site and found H110 to be a powder to cover most bullet weights.
As my handle implies I started out reloading for .308 win. I have many projectiles on hand in that cal.
So this begins my questions for you all. I've never loaded for this cartage or formed brass from a parent cartage. Best I can tell this round was invented to compete with the 7.62x39 as far as penetration. Good with subsonic suppressed velocity's in an AR platform.
Should I anneal the new cases?
H110 an ok powder? I've read it is temp stable, but more suited to lighter projectiles. I live in MN where the temp swings are enormous from day to day, or day to night depending on time of year.
Suggested bullet weight for this cartage? For now this will just be a plinker out to 200m. Would like to bring the load up to whitetail deer hunting spec eventually.
Any thing else I'm missing?
As always thanks for the input
Onto the 300 blackout. picked up a barrel from a friend and built an upper around it, couldn't help my self. cut down some 223/556 brass and formed them, trimmed to length, camphored and deburred, then tumbled clean.
Looked through my Hornady reloading manual and Hodgdon's site and found H110 to be a powder to cover most bullet weights.
As my handle implies I started out reloading for .308 win. I have many projectiles on hand in that cal.
So this begins my questions for you all. I've never loaded for this cartage or formed brass from a parent cartage. Best I can tell this round was invented to compete with the 7.62x39 as far as penetration. Good with subsonic suppressed velocity's in an AR platform.
Should I anneal the new cases?
H110 an ok powder? I've read it is temp stable, but more suited to lighter projectiles. I live in MN where the temp swings are enormous from day to day, or day to night depending on time of year.
Suggested bullet weight for this cartage? For now this will just be a plinker out to 200m. Would like to bring the load up to whitetail deer hunting spec eventually.
Any thing else I'm missing?
As always thanks for the input
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