For the .300 WSM I am going with 67 grains of Reloader 19 under a 180 grain Sierra Game King.
With the .30-06 I have settled on 55.5 grains of IMR 4350 with a Nosler Accubond 180 grain.
Seismic Sam wrote:Have you chronoed both loads to see how consistent they are?? Or, to put it another way, how did you come to the conclusion that these loads are the best ones to go with? I don't shoot either caliber, and even if I did, with handloading there is no such thing as one BEST load, but what makes these two desirable?
crbutler wrote:I think you have the bullet choices reversed, IMO. The accubond is a more retentive bullet design. The magnum will put more stress on the bullet on impact than the 06.
But either will kill deer, of course.
crbutler wrote:The nice thing about the accubond is that it generally shoots pretty well in everything. The accubond was Nosler's attempt to upgrade the partition. I'm not sold it does that, but it is a very good hunting bullet for everything short of big dangerous animals in my opinion.
A whitetail doesn't demand much of a bullet to kill it. If your load has been adequate in the past, it will in the future.
The .30 06 doesn't need a premium hunting bullet, but of course they work just fine there too.
My comment was meant that if I was loading hunting ammo, in the absence of accuracy concerns with the accubond in that rifle, I would use the premium bullet in the magnum, and use the game kings in standard velocity cartridges like the 06. There are plenty of reasons to choose one over the other other than the terminal ballistics though.
A 180 grain .308 bullet, regardless of type will hold together enough for deer from either rifle... I have met guys who use match kings and Berger bullets on deer with perfectly adequate results. Elk, well then I'd want the accubond.
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