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Tell me what you think. I bought a brown box of federal 300 wsm 180gr power shok the comes with 10 boxes of ammo (200 rounds). I have shot this before and it's quite hot with pretty flat primers and since brass is hard to come by these days I thought maybe I should pull the bullets and reload it all with the same powdr but 2 gr less. This would be a lighter load to fire form the brass and hopefully make it last longer with the primer pockets not giving up in 3 fireings.

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If it were me / myself / personally, I'd pull the bullets. Just the fact that you're asking leads me to believe you have safety concerns and we should never have those.

The Winchester 22-250 white box (40gr bullet, 50 rounds I think). The head spacing on those rounds would fit the sloppiest of chambers. If given a box, I would pull the bullets and reclaim the brass. But then again, that's just me.

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Originally Posted by kman
Tell me what you think. I bought a brown box of federal 300 wsm 180gr power shok the comes with 10 boxes of ammo (200 rounds). I have shot this before and it's quite hot with pretty flat primers and since brass is hard to come by these days I thought maybe I should pull the bullets and reload it all with the same powdr but 2 gr less. This would be a lighter load to fire form the brass and hopefully make it last longer with the primer pockets not giving up in 3 fireings.

Thoughts?


I've done it before, no big thing, though sometimes you might need to size the necks again.

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Alright seem like this is pretty straight forward. It's all the same lot number so I will measure the charge weight of 10 and reload them all with a bit less. Certainly don't want to waste the almost 2 lbs of powder.
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Just another thought you could drop in some 165s with powder charges as are and be Milder!
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I'm not excited about Win ball powders, and considering the current problems with Win primers I'd pop them out too. I wouldn't feel bad at all if I only used the brass.

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Federal ammo has win primers?
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Originally Posted by kman
Federal ammo has win primers?

No...

HaYen mentioned Win White Box ammo and I hit the Quick Reply.

I think your plan is a good one, but 2gr may still be in the warm zone.

Based on my experience with other Fed brass I might drop it down another grain or two lower to start.

WSM rounds are rated at 65k psi max and I don't run field loads in any round that hot.

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