ORIGINAL: Ridge Runner
Big,
you at book max big or did you work up a max load for your rifle? sounds like your chamber is oversized causing pressures to run lower, I loaded for a guys 7 RM once like that, was shooting 280 rem velocities so I kept going up while watching for pressure signs, finaly got it where it was sposed to be.
RR
I have loaded up to max "book" load but never saw any pressure signs, but accuracy started falling down. I was reading old layne Simpsons loads and dad gone, that guy really pushed those loads. His max load for 160gr bullet was 86gr of H1000. And that was kicking it almost 3400fps. I don't know how he didn't see any pressure signs.
So tonight I loaded up several different combos to try. One was with RL25 78gr to 80gr, and another was H1000 78gr to 80gr. I was getting 3050fps with 78gr of H1000 last year and got average 1MOA accuracy but didn't go past 78gr. Well see how accuracy goes with 80gr.