RE: Best powder for a .308 win. ?
 

Made it to the range today with everything I could scrape up. Win. pp, Remington corelokt, Federal power shok. reloads with 748,3031 The conditions were not good, 96,sun in eyes,humid with a strong swirling wind. I shot 3 shot groups with them all. with the rifle zero at 2" high at 100. Nothing did much good about 3" groups untill I tried the cheap federals. I shot about an 1" group at 100. Then started shooting at milk jugs of water at 200,250 and 300 yds. and got lucky, hit them all. I guess that is good enough for a lever gun with a 3x scopeBut, soon as I can I will try some 4064
Anyone know what Federal loads in their power shockammo. bullet,powder ?

RE: Best powder for a .308 win. ?
 

I like Winchester 748 ball powder. This fine granulated powder is easy to work with and obtain a more consistant load from case to case. I shoot a Remington model 700 Varmint Special (22" barrel). My favorite load is 49 grains under a Hornady 168 gr. boat-tail hollow point. The charts say I'm getting 2800 fps at the muzzle, although I've never personally clocked them. In the past I was able to obtain a 4" group @ 600 yards.