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Sorry if this has been covered before.

Recently in France I purchased some 65gr Subsonic cartridges.
Would like to replicate the load but unsure of the powder used or charge?
Could have purchased more but at €52 per 20 I'd rather not thank you.

Thank you in advance and yes it's my first real post.

Jay

Use a cast boolit with around 4gr of Viht 310? 1000fps or thereabouts.

give trailboss a try , you could also look in a lyman reloading manual , they give you cast bullet loads that you could use to extrapolate data from for a subsonic load.

tackb wrote:give trailboss a try , you could also look in a lyman reloading manual , they give you cast bullet loads that you could use to extrapolate data from for a subsonic load.

Trailboss is too expensive for my liking!

Trailboss would get you around 1000 .243 loads per tub and at GBP24/tub that is cheap shooting in my eyes.

Aye but it is a 9 oz tub.

Ramshot Zip for instance is £32 for 16ozs, over 2000 loads, so even cheaper shooting.

Based on using cast boolits.

Good point, I forgot it is only a 9oz tub so closer to 600 loads.

3.5 gns ZIP under an 80 odd gn boolit will give around 1000 fps.

7000 gns to the lb so 2000 rounds from a lb of Zip for £32 = 1.6p/round for the powder.

Trailboss = 4.2p/round over 2 1/2 times the cost of Zip.

You can take the lad out of Scotland....

Thanks for the replies.

Am still out in Frog land so powder availability is often limited otherwise Trailboss or def Ramshot would be great

Used to reloading .300 win mag so used to not getting too many rounds out of a kilo so using just 4gr or there abouts would be like Xmas.

Cast bullets are also lacking at the local shops too so it's the usual Sierra or Hornady A-max for us.
Just looked in the cupboard and have a load of Hodgson HP38, would this be useable as I see the Vihtavuori 310 mentioned is a pistol powder?

Although not Scots I still like to save where I can :-)