ORIGINAL: Pglasgow
If Savage thinks that 65 grains of smokeless powder issomething they cannot recommend in their rifles, then I trust that. You can say its safe all you want and so can SMI. I'll put my faith in Savage.
I'm not the one who ok'd the loads, SMI did. Send your complaints to them. And you may have noticed that the powders SMI lists are slower burning powders than the ones Savage lists. Here's a list compiled by Savage shooters:
http://www.sav10ml.com/pages/load_data/table1.htm
Seems someSavage shooters use 72 gr of 2015 and a 300 gr bullet to boot.They're not factory loads but there are apparently more loads suitable for the Savage 10ML than the factory lists. Of course using them your on your own, but other than Toby's incident all the cases of damagedSavages I've heard of are ringed barrels. This has included double loads and shooting ramrods out of their guns. Makes you wonder exactly what he did.
It's also interesting to note that the loads listed in the current manual aren't the only Savage approved loads. The recently redid the manual and the loads that were in the older manuals are still approved per contact with Savage. This includes the ones for the old 10 ML I manuals.