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.338 ABE Express

Warning! Notes: These loads were all near maximum for trouble-free hunting loads and gave similar pressures. Proof loads were fired with as much as four grains more of some powders with no extraction problems. However, no load listed should be used in any other rifle without starting about five percent below and working up as pressure indications permit. Twenty-six-inch Atkinson barrel, 1917 Enfield action; RWS .404 Jeffery cases fireformed; Federal 215 primers; Oehler 34/50 Chronograph system; velocity at 15 feet converted to muzzle velocity; temperature, seventy degrees. (Handloader Issue 79)

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Wt.	Bullet	Powder Manufacturer	Powder	Charge	Velocity (FPS)
200	Speer	Hodgdon	H-4831	Subscribe	3,381
Remarks: group size: 5/8; velocity extreme spread: 39; case filled with powder sifted slowly through long tube; heavily compressed load
200	Speer	Norma	MRP	Subscribe	3,335
Remarks: group size: 15/16; velocity extreme spread: 14
200	Speer	IMR	IMR-4831	Subscribe	3,407
Remarks: group size: 2; velocity extreme spread: 39
200	Speer	IMR	IMR-4350	Subscribe	3,408
Remarks: group size: 1 3/8; velocity extreme spread: 37
210	Nosler Partition	Hodgdon	H-4831	Subscribe	3,363
Remarks: group size: 5/8; velocity extreme spread: 20; case filled with powder sifted slowly through long tube; heavily compressed load
210	Nosler Partition	Norma	MRP	Subscribe	3,319
Remarks: group size: 1 1/2; velocity extreme spread: 7
210	Nosler Partition	Winchester	W-785	Subscribe	3,324
Remarks: group size: 1 7/8; velocity extreme spread: 44
210	Nosler Partition	Hodgdon	H-205	Subscribe	3,295
Remarks: group size: 1 3/16; velocity extreme spread: 36
210	Nosler Partition	IMR	IMR-4831	Subscribe	3,348
Remarks: group size: 3/8; velocity extreme spread: 14
210	Nosler Partition	IMR	IMR-4350	Subscribe	3,334
Remarks: group size: 1 15/16; velocity extreme spread: 35
225	Hornady	Hodgdon	H-4831	Subscribe	3,258
Remarks: group size: 2 1/2; velocity extreme spread: 8; case filled with powder sifted slowly through long tube; heavily compressed load
225	Hornady	Norma	MRP	Subscribe	3,208
Remarks: group size; 2 1/8; velocity extreme spread: 8
225	Hornady	Winchester	W-785	Subscribe	3,145
Remarks: group size; 1 5/8; velocity extreme spread: 26
225	Hornady	Hodgdon	H-205	Subscribe	3,100
Remarks: group size; 1 3/4; velocity extreme spread: 68
225	Hornady	IMR	IMR-4831	Subscribe	3,238
Remarks: group size: 2 7/8; velocity extreme spread: 10
225	Hornady	IMR	IMR-4350	Subscribe	3,216
Remarks: group size: 2 1/2; velocity extreme spread: 8
250	Nosler Partition	Hodgdon	H-870	Subscribe	2,892
Remarks: group size: 1 7/8; velocity extreme spread: 11; case filled with powder sifted slowly through long tube; heavily compressed load
250	Nosler Partition	Hodgdon	H-4831	Subscribe	3,078
Remarks: group size: 1; velocity extreme spread: 48
250	Nosler Partition	Norma	MRP	Subscribe	3,044
Remarks: group size: 1; velocity extreme spread: 23
250	Nosler Partition	IMR	IMR-4831	Subscribe	3,042
Remarks: group size: 7/8; velocity extreme spread: 14
250	Nosler Partition	IMR	IMR-4350	Subscribe	3,018
Remarks: group size: 1 1/16; velocity extreme spread: 13
275	Speer	Hodgdon	H-4831	Subscribe	2,889
Remarks: group size: 1 3/4; velocity extreme spread: 16
275	Speer	Norma	MRP	Subscribe	2,859
Remarks: group size: 3/8; velocity extreme spread: 6
275	Speer	IMR	IMR-4831	Subscribe	2,833
Remarks: group size: 1 1/4; velocity extreme spread: 26
275	Speer	IMR	IMR-4350	Subscribe	2,805
Remarks: group size: 2 1/2; velocity extreme spread: 14