.308 Youth Load Preliminary Results...looking good

[flyingfrog509]

OK as always please double check any load data before using it!!!

So I had a friend's son who is recoil shy and not enough money to buy said son a .243. What does one do. Head out to the Hodgdon web site and check out some youth loads they have published. See: www.hodgdon.com/PDF/Youth Loads.pdf

Results are a 13 year old who is willing to shoot his dad's Savage model 11 with a smile on his face and no flinching while pulling the trigger.

The first set of loads were done in run of the mill boxer primed military brass of mixed headstamps. The only change I made from the Hodgdon load data was the over all length based on some prior 110 loads I had done. (so I was a tad short) The shown loads were shot out of a Remington SPS Tactical. The group was just a tad under 3/8 of an inch at 101 yards shot with a sand and a backpack off a patio table.

My Load Data:
Brass - Mixed Mill
Bullet - Hornady 130 SP
Powder - H4895 37g
Primer - WLR
OAL - 2.685 (a tad shorter than suggested)

 

[Shovelhead]

Another reason to love reloading... tailor the load to the shooter. My wife use to be gun shy I`d. load what I called 38/22`s A subsonic extremlly light load chronographed at around 700fps. No recoil she shot it and was very accurate at close range. Also cured her flinch

 

[blazedawg87]

shovel can we get some sub titles on what you just wrote

 

[Shovelhead]

My xoom was wacking out... or its the meds... corrected entries

 

[blazedawg87]

Maybe a lil bit a both. I want to reload for my .308 to get the ol lady into shooting long range.

 

[Shovelhead]

Try varmint loads lighter bullet... lighter recoil.. work your way up...

 

[blazedawg87]

good idea, any experience with the remington managed recoil rounds? They should be right around the same as the OP's rounds if memory serves me right.

 

[loadnplenty]

according to hogdons new manual use can use trail boss in rifle loads also. Fills the case and less recoil. My son is 7 and probably gonna do that to ease him into his 30/30

 

[flyingfrog509]

The youth load is intended for deer hunting out to 200 yards and is close enough that the scope doesn't need to be changed between dad's 150gr factory load and the 130gr youth load. Different point blank ranges obviously, but over all very easy for them to share the rifle.

The H4895 powder at 37g is about 75% of the published max load. Don't think that can be done safely with just any powder. (but I'm still new to this)

 

[flyingfrog509]

according to hogdons new manual use can use trail boss in rifle loads also. Fills the case and less recoil. My son is 7 and probably gonna do that to ease him into his 30/30

The PDF in the OP has a youth load for most standard loads from .243 - 300win mag including 30-30.