My daughter shoots a Browning X-Bolt Micro Midas, 20" barrel. She shoots the Hornady 120 SST "Lite" factory load. I would like to find a lite load to reload for her. looking at the Nosler 120 BT and a min charge of "some" powder.
anyone have a lite pet load?
That factory load is advertised at 2,675 from a 24" barrel. I get about 2,600 from a 20" barrel with 120's and 31gr of H4198, which is an old silhouette handgun load Hodgdon used to publish in their manuals (Mine is manual No. 25 and went up to 32gr). It's MOA out to 200yds, which is as far as I've shot it, and my daughter and I have both killed stuff with it. It's fun to dump stuff in it's tracks with such little recoil and blast. I recall Seafire mentioning that Remington uses 4198 in their youth loads, somewhere around that same charge.