I belong to a little group up in northern Wisc that does some 300, 600 and 1000 yard F class shooting. I use a Savage 12 FTR 308. I use Lapua brass and sort it by weight, I don't ream primer pockets and I don't neck turn cases. I use a Lee collet neck die, a Forster shoulder bump die and a Forster mic seater die. I do pay absolute attention to runout. I use 175 gr SMK's, WLR primers and H4895. I have tried 168 smk's 155 smk and some others but have settled on the 175s. I get just a shade over 3000 fps at muzzle with my load and it easily gets to 1k at mach plus. No round fired has more than .001 bullet runout and most are less. I also anneal every third firing. I bump the shoulder every time about .002. I haven't kept track of the number of times these cases have been fired, but I think some are close to the 20 mark.
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