Help reloading 303

[r22r]

Thanks you very very much for taking the time to respond to me. You gave some very valuable infos and I'll be sure to use them ! So there's no problem using .312 bullets in a lee enfield instead of the .311 ?

thansk again

JP

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[Edward Horton]

Thanks you very very much for taking the time to respond to me. You gave some very valuable infos and I'll be sure to use them ! So there's no problem using .312 bullets in a lee enfield instead of the .311 ?

thansk again

JP

READ the Hodgdon's reloading data I posted above, the 150 grain Hornady bullet is .312 diameter that means it is OK to shoot in an Enfield Rifle.

[r22r]

I did read it but I just wanted to make sure. Thank you again for taking the time to help, its appreciated.

sincerely

JP

[Edward Horton]

r22r

The best advice I can give you is buy more than one reloading manual (the more the better) and start reading from the very front of the book.

You want to absorb as many facts from the beginning of the book as possible and keep reading as long as you reload.

What I really want to sink in is the load data I posted from Hodgdon's is 3,000 psi below the rated chamber pressure for the Enfield Rifle. It is also very close to what the pressures are for factory loaded ammunition. The older Enfield's are rated at a lower chamber pressure and the factory ammunition MUST be safe to fire in ALL Enfield's

Your loading data from the Lee Loader is actually lower than the suggested starting loads listed from the Hodgdon's data I posted. This is to make sure you are safe and the chamber pressures are MORE than safe.

You should also read up on the different chamber pressure measuring systems, CUP being the older and the PSI readings being newer.

50,000 CUP is approximately the same pressure as 60,000 PSI just like 60 mph is equal to 100 kph.

I can still remember reloading at my grandparents farm sitting at the kitchen table and hitting my Lee loader with my rubber hammer. My Grandfather told me to go out and reload in the cookhouse and that I wasn't going to blowup HIS house.

[AKA Hugh Uno]

I would start with IMR4895 or Varget and 150 grain bullets (NOT 174/180s) for best accuracy. Lee Enfields are not the easiest cartridge/rifle to get best accuracy from. I have never had that much luck with 3031.. my .02 anyway.