Reloading ?

[Steve]

(1 November 2013, 19:59)Midnitemo Wrote: I got roped into helping a friend try and develop a heavy subsonic .308 load...wanted my help cos i had a 26 inch barrelled L42A1 at the time and he wanted to try the longer barrel to see if it could get the bullet spinning adequately to stop it tumbling , never managed subsonic but got it stable at about 1300fps with a 180 grain bullet ... just over half the normal velocity of 147grn radway.

It's all about twist rate, barrel length is not important as you're trying to keep velocity below 1070fps anyway. Lapua make a 200grn subsonic 308 that is reputed to be excellent, but no use to me, I only load low velocity so that I can use cheap cast bullets for practice, instead of the expensive Sierra or Hornadys.

L42A1 is a nice rifle, worth a few quid now, I know of one for sale if you want to get back into it.