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Hi
After some powder to load up for 8mm mauser. Ramshot tac, reloader 15, h4895, varget.
Im in south east and can pay cash or have some reloader 19 to trade.
Thanks
Jay

Hi Jay,

I don't have any powder for sale, however, I would reccomend using Ramshot Big Game instead of Ramshot Tac in this calibre. I found this to be the case with my 8mm Mauser. Tac is a bit too fast burning, if I didn't use enough powder (around 42.5gr if I recall for a 200gr bullet) then the case would not fully obturate which would make the cases go very sooty and would blow some cool gas back through the action. When I upped the charge to 43gr I found that cases needed I bigger lift on the bolt handle to extract the case. They would then need full length sizing and I couldn't get away with neck sizing.

Ramshot Big Game was much better. The stated load for a 200gr bullet is 45gr to 50gr. I get good case obturation, grouping and velocity with starting load up to 48gr, anything higher required a lot of lift on the bolt and full length sizing so I stuck with 48gr. I cannot comment on the other powders you've listed as I've not used them in this calibre.

PS these loads kick!!

WelshShooter wrote:Hi Jay,

I don't have any powder for sale, however, I would reccomend using Ramshot Big Game instead of Ramshot Tac in this calibre. I found this to be the case with my 8mm Mauser. Tac is a bit too fast burning, if I didn't use enough powder (around 42.5gr if I recall for a 200gr bullet) then the case would not fully obturate which would make the cases go very sooty and would blow some cool gas back through the action. When I upped the charge to 43gr I found that cases needed I bigger lift on the bolt handle to extract the case. They would then need full length sizing and I couldn't get away with neck sizing.

Ramshot Big Game was much better. The stated load for a 200gr bullet is 45gr to 50gr. I get good case obturation, grouping and velocity with starting load up to 48gr, anything higher required a lot of lift on the bolt and full length sizing so I stuck with 48gr. I cannot comment on the other powders you've listed as I've not used them in this calibre.

PS these loads kick!!

Thanks for sharing the info fella, will look for big game instead.
Atb
Jay