
Originally Posted by
Smellie
If you want to shoot for REALLY cheap, you can run the Harris Universal Load For Military Rifles. It is 13 grains of Red Dot shotgun powder behind a 180-grain CAST bullet.
This load was developed by the Canadian firearms expert C.E. Harris as a mild (slightly over Gallery) loading for just about ALL military-size rifles. With minor modification, it works well for any large-bore rifle of the World Wars. I would NOT try it in a .223! OTOH, it works just fine in .303s, 8x57s, 7x57s and so forth.
No filler is required, no wad.
DO NOT USE WITH JACKETED BULLETS!!!!!!!
You can run straight WW metal, with or without a gas check (your rifle will tell you) and you get 538 rounds to the tin of powder.
COST is about 8 cents a shot for checkless, 11 cents a shot for gas-check bullets. That's 9 to 12 rounds for a Loonie.
Accuracy is good enough that Buffdog uses this as his gopher-sniping load in a .303, out as far as 300 yards. He can just about guarantee a hit at 200+.
Another friend in Starbuck is running these in a Mark III Ross and reports just a hair over 1 MOA with them, repeatable any time you can hold the rifle down. He is using 14 grains of Red Dot..... and has started buying his Red Dot 2 cans at a time! It WORKS.
I am running away to hide for a while. Have to check out this 480 pounds of SOFT lead which arrived here...... and the most recent bucket of WW....... which has 5 more friends still to be brought home.
Hope this helps.