flounder33
I bought some Triple Seven ff loose to try out and I plan on starting at about 85 grains and going up from there. If I want to be totally safe, (which I do), do I need to stop at 100.
Yep! you do if you want to comply with the manufactures standard and remain in the safe area. Part of the reasoning is
human mistakes if they say 100 and you goof a little bit and get 110-120 you might be ok. but if you load 127 and goof you might not be so ok...
And then again if you go the to the Hodogons (spelling) web site you will see that their max laods are 100 grains...
One additional point - 100 grains of loose T7-2f is way hotter than 100 grains of T7 pellets - might be worth 110/115 grains of the pellets. Mt suggestion if you can make the switch to loose it is a better move... You will get more consistent loads.. Gosh one more thing very few modern ML's can burn more than 120 grains of powder any more than that and you will be shooting un-burnt powder out the barrel.