The Easiest and Fussiest Cartridges to Load For?

[Phil3]

What, in your opinion or experience, is the easiest and fussiest cartridge to load for? For top accuracy of course. What happened to lead you to your opinion?

Phil

 

[barnesuser28]

IME, 257 roberts +P, easiest to load for. This is a factory ruger M77 and the first load i tried it shot .308" CTC at 100 yards, shot two more groups of that same load that measured .340" CTC and .289" CTC. Good enough for me!

Fussiest, 300 rum, never found a good load for the rifle, would shoot 1/2 MOA one day then 2 MOA the next with the same load. I am having that rifle completely rebuilt and will actually be picking it up on wednesday. I tried 3 different powders, two different bullets, two different primers and four different kinds of factory ammo. It is now chambered in a 30/375 S.I.

 

[jonbearman]

Easiest was 6 br ,7-08,.308,30-06,22-250, and .223. Hardest was the .260,and 6.5x55 for me.

 

[searcher]

The 6PPCUSA (Sako' no-turn chamber) was the easiest. 6PPC's in general are very easy to tune to accuracy, the Sako model the easiest as there was no fireforming to make the brass. (Now Norma sells the brass) The toughest to get to shoot REALLY

 

[searcher]

The toughest to get to shoot really well has been various 7mm Rem. Magnums - but this was in trying to get them to accurately shoot unleaded bullets. I've since found the key to getting both of mine to shoot are the Barnes Tipped TSX bullets. Better than Lead out to 500-600 yards.

 

[pacificman]

A couple of easy ones for me was 22-250 and .223. A couple of fussy ones was my 300 ultra and .17 Remington. I can't tell ya why some are fussy and some are not except as you know every rifle is different and some just seem to take the extra time and right combination of components to find the accurate load. Seems like some rifles like just about anything you put in them and others have to have that one magic combo to shoot the way they should.

 

[tenring]

Easiest - 30 BR Fussiest - 25.06; also, some VLD bullets in any cal.

 

[HeavyLoad]

I've never loaded this caliber but I would think the 25acp would be tough.
Just because of the overall size of the components.
The easiest for me to load is the 44mag & 45colt.
The powders used meter good through the measure, no lubeing, no trimming.

 

[Judd]

Easiest - 30 BR Fussiest - 25.06; also, some VLD bullets in any cal.

I agree on the easiest. Cram as much powder as you can without crushing and go shoot little groups!

My 6br hated 105 amax and 105 VLD's. I had a heck of a time with it.

 

[North Fork]

T

 

[JeffG]

6BR-easiest, (just wish we could get good magazine feeds)
22 Hornet-fussiest (...still haven't gotten it right)

 

[North Fork]

The 30BR and 6BR have been the easiest for me I am having fun now shooting 125gr TNT in the 30BR

 

[Bogusname]

Easy- 6.5x47 L
Fussy- 6mmAR turbo 40 imp

 

[Barlow]

6 Dasher easiest, various 25-06's most finicky. Barlow

 

[bheadboy]

Easy - 6x47(mmm) +222rem

fussy - hornet and 260 rem

Bob

 

[XTR]

So far for me the easiest and hardest have been the same cartridge. A 223Rem bolt gun throated long for heavy bullets. It has shot pretty much any 80 grain bullet I've loaded into it with match accuracy EXCEPT the 90VLD, which after 100+ rounds of experimentation still scatters all over the paper in about a 2MOA random area.

 

[gilream]

The toughest to get to shoot really well has been various 7mm Rem. Magnums - but this was in trying to get them to accurately shoot unleaded bullets. I've since found the key to getting both of mine to shoot are the Barnes Tipped TSX bullets. Better than Lead out to 500-600 yards.

The 7 MM Remington Magnum was a bit picky until, like you, I worked up a load for 150 grain Barnes TTSX and RL 22 for an elk hunt in 2011. It was like someone suddenly flipped a switch. 1/2 inch groups at 100 yards were pretty much the norm. I worked up the charge at .050 off the kiss, then loaded .010" longer then .010" shorter and they all basically shot the same..right around .5 inch at 100 yds. Not a plinking bullet unless you have deep pockets ($$$) but they really work in my rifle.

My Mod. 788 in .243 Winchester will shoot just about anything well as will the .22 PPC.

 

[Hopkins]

Fussiest :.300 Weatherby. Wringing accuracy out of long freebored belted magnum while maintaining muzzle velocity is a challenge.
Easiest: Just about anything without a belt in comparison.

 

[M-61]

Easiest and still my favorite......222 REM...developed a load in the early 70's that was great and basically has not changed and still shoots with consistency that I marvel at....both for me and the rifle. My 6BR (decades later) comes the closest to that.
The 22 Hornet was the worst and I never really came close to figuring it out. One of very few I sold.

 

[ShootDots]

I believe the "BR-Family" of cartridges to be the easiest to load for and the "fussiest" to be MOST of you real overbore cartridges. However, having said that, one of the easiest magnums I ever loaded for was my .300 RUM! But as a rule, your "majorly overbore" cartridges pose the hardest to accurately reload for!.. Just my opinion!