Originally Posted by
Swissfan
Yeah, I got the barrel used for a decent price, that's the only reason I went with the LW. Originally I was going to try to do the rechamber by hand and figured it would be a smaller loss if I screwed it up. I ended up having a gunsmith do the rechamber with the reamer I bought. I also had the gunsmith open up the bolt face.
I have the go and no-go headspace gauges if you want to borrow them. Let me know and I'll mail them to you and you can return when you get the barrel on.
I started getting the 7.5 brass/bullets/powder out last night after I saw this post. I used 44.4gr of IMR4350 with the 185gr Bergers.
I have a few different brands of boxer brass that I've picked up the last couple of years. I was thing I would shoot some of the factory PPU I have just to have more brass. I also have some of the berdan GP-11 brass that I have reloaded. I found some berdan primers at a gun show a couple years ago.
I have some 150gr and 175gr Sierra's and 180gr Nosler and Swift I am going to load up. Are you using 308 Win load data?
I haven't been reloading very long and am not comfortable in using the 308 data for the 7.5.
There are several 7.5 loads in the manuals, I will start with those and go from there.