308 sierra matchking

[KingMickey]

Getting into reloading 168 and 175 grain going to try it out. What kind of gun powder do you use for quality matches?

 

[owen58]

I've had very good performance out of both Varget and Shooter's World Precision.

 

[JBWJr]

I have used the army match load as a 168 HPBT over 42 gr of IMR4895 at 2.82 OAL.

 

[SpeedyR]

there's a lot of debate as to what powder goes into the Federal Gold Medal Match rounds (typically the gold standard for match quality 168/175gr bullets). But most have good luck with Varget and IMR 4046. Other solid options are RamShot TAC, Alliant Reloader 15, VV N540, and IMR 4895. All depends upon what you have or can find these days but any of these should give you good results.

 

[Control for Smilers]

I have used a lot of varget and imr 8208XBR.

 

[jglenn]

Imr 4895 or 4064.. then Varget

 

[Presschecker]

My smallest groups with the 168’s were with Reloder-15.

 

[medium187mph]

Imr3031, 150gr Gamekings, paper/meat puncher

 

[BIKER13]

4064 for my 150's

 

[palmettomoon]

I've had the best loads with 4064 and H4895. Haven't loaded any IMR 4895 in a while. Never got much out of Varget in the rifles I shoot. Maybe I didn't find the "node."

I load .308 Win for M1A, HeadsDown LLC Arcadius (AR10) and a Rem 700 SPS.