8x56R Load data????

[Mad Reloader]

Brithunter:

Umm, swap out the word "Green" for "Red" in the above monograph, and that's basically my standard load for .303 British, .308 Win, similar size thirty calibre rounds with cast leads.

(For .30-30, drop down to 8 grains of Green! Volume's smaller!)

I on occasion load for shotgun, and have a couple of loads for some oddball pistol calibres using Green Dot...so I keep that as one of my standard powders in inventory.

When I applied the Green version of "The Load" to rolling up 7.62x54R--which has a significantly larger internal volume than .303--I upped my charge to 15.0 grains, and since the 8x56R looks like a Mosin-Nagant round fired in an oversize chamber, it's clearly in the same capacity class, so once again:

Cast lead bullet of standard weight for the class, 15.0 grains Green= "Tyrolean Cowboy" load for 8mm Steyr rifles!