If you’re like me, as soon as you get a new rifle, you start to anticipate reloading for it. There’s nothing quite like the satisfaction of seeing your groups shrink after careful planning and successive batches of reloads. For most of us, there’s a particular rifle cartridge that we tend to reload most frequently. Which one is it for you?
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For me it would be .204 which is the most often reloaded, since it also the most often fired at targets and varmints. I don’t see it as one of the choices. Of the choices listed it would be .308 Win/ 7.62×51.
.204 here also, sage rats beware.
I have justed started reloading 6.8 spc. Not much info around on this one.
Since I reload for both competition and hunting I don’t really have a favorite. I do believe the best loads come from personal commitment to optimize your rifles characteristics. I also believe you choose your rifle based on what your going to do and where.
The 270 WSM is my volume load. 110 gr for prairie dogs to antelope. 130 gr for deer & caribou. Usually 140 gr for elk (I don’t take shots over 200 yards so plenty of KE) but have used 150 gr too as rifle has a quick 1 in 7 turn.
I suspect it’s not considered much of a rifle cartridge but the .41 Magnum is my second most reloaded rifle cartridge. It’s my all around favorite round for pistol and rifle.
Rifle cartridges I reload most often:
1 – .300 Win. Mag.
2 – .30-’06 (Springfields and Garands)
3 – 7.7mm M99 Japanese Arisaka
4 – .348 Winchester
5 – .303 British
6 – 8mm K98 Mauser
(pistols: .41 Rem.Mag., .357 Mag.)
I load the following on my Hornady equipment: 45-70 to shoot in my Winchester model 1886 lever gun, 30-06 to shoot in my Winchester Model 70 bolt action rifle, .357 to shoot in my Winchester model 1892 lever action rifle, and finally 44-40 to use in my Winchester model 1992 lever gun.
I enjoy shooting all of them and really enjoy the fact they they are historically important cartridges. I have learned a lot on this website, and would probably not have started reloading without the information I picked up here.
For me I love my 6.5 Grendel so I load it a lot.
Most of my rifle loading – the .223 and .17 Remington
HMmmmm….?
Still, after 56 yrs. highly favor the cartridge Jack O’Conner popularized, the venerable .270 Win.
With the exception or the larger Bear family members it handled all the Big Game hunting did in Alaska, when lived there, after Military service.
Should temper this with not ever being much of a varmint hunter for whatever reason……..
Out of the cratridges listed, the 223 is the most reloaded by me.
Because of my cowboy shooting, the 44/40 is actually the most loaded by a huge margin followed by the 38Special (in my wife’s Rossi92).
I also load the following for use in rifles:
17Ackly Hornet, 22Hornet, 222, 220Swift, 22/250, 240Wby, 25/20, 6,5 Swede, 6.5 Jap, 270, 30/30, 308, 300WM, 3006, 7.5French, 32/20, 7.5x54Russian, 303Brit, 8mmLebel, 8×57, 338WM, 375H&H, 416Rigby, 44Special, 44Mag, 444 and 45/70.
Number wise, the pistol ammo wins the body count.
357 magnum for my Marlin 1894. I shoot metalic silhouetts out to 200m with it. I also have 4 revolvers that use the same cartridge. It is easy to load and inexpensive. I use Origon Trail’s 158 rnfp over 14g of h110.
I load 5.56 and 6.5 Grendel
22/250 for everything from pasture poodles to ‘yote’s — BUT load a lot more .357 Mag for ’92 lever gun for silhouette & wild pigs. 180g MBC fp w/ 10.9g 2400.
7.62x54r ruskie and 6.5×55 SE.
Yay! “7.62x54r” (I was hoping someone would vote for that cartridge)
7.62×39
375 H&H Mag is what I reload most.
Also several others.
It is good to see another Bothell resident in the forum!
you can email me if you like.
Mike
6.5x55mm and .38 Super
Varies upon the project, right now .257 Roberts Ackley Improved (great cartridge) and developing su sonic loads for a 7.62 X 39mm that I put together recently. Trail Boss powder with 200 to 220 grain Sierras. Kind of pricey for plinking, buts loads of fun.
Although it’s not a rifle cartridge, 45LC for the Henry would be the one I load the most of, followed by 45/70 and then 375 H&H
I load .222, 6mm Rem and 30-06 plus 38/357, 45 acp and 7.62×25. Also load some 243 but I like the 6mm Rem. better.
260 Remington for me, used in Highpower Rifle Silhouette
I reload for the 20-06 a lot because it is so much fun to shoot at the range. While I use the 25-06 mostly for target practice using a 75 grain bullet, it makes a good whitetail rifle with a 117 grain Interlock. Also reload for the 6.5×55, 30-30, 30-06, 9mm, 38 Special, .357, and 40 S&W.
I load 44 mag and 45-70 for my marlins. Also 30-06 for my Savage.
270 Win. on occasion.
Also 38 Special, 357 Mag., 45 ACP, 44 Special, 45 Colt. Casting bullets is a life saver.
Short list….I need more guns!!
32 Winchester Special and 300 Savage. Soon to add 300 Win Mag.
.270 win. Very common in NZ for Cpx2. 7m08 and 25-06 also common
6.5X47 Lapua and the 6mmBR
Load the 300wsm, 280 rem, and the 22-250 rem.
.45-70
.303 British
300 Blackout, converting 5.56/223 cases for the 300 Blackout as well as custom loads.