ORIGINAL: Sharp Shooter
When you start shooting heavy conicals do you have to back your charge down? With my 425gr Hornady Great Plains conical I am shooing 100gr FFG Goex. There are some conicals I want to try that are 500+gr. This Yogi conical is 515gr I want to try. They also have a 600gr but I do not know if I want to try that. Then there is the No Excuses 535gr conical. I have also thought about trying some Bull Shops. So my question is when I get over 500gr do I need to back my charge? I know I am going to build up loads when trying these out but what would be a max safe charge for some of these? Is 100gr-110gr FFg safe if my gun likes it?
In your Renegade, it is safe to shoot 110 grains and that big conical but I will warn you ahead of time, be prepared to be SMACKED! That thing will really kick. I had a friend shoot mine with a 425 grains Hornady and 100 grains of Pyrodex RS and the rifle smacked him so hard in the cheek and shoulder he refused to shoot it anymore after that.
I always shot them with 80 grains of Pyrodex RS and had excellent accuracy and excellent down range thump. You have to remember, these big conicals, while slow, carry a lot of down range energy. When you move up into the 500+ conicals, I would start the loads at 70 grains and work up until the accuracy fails or the recoil is too much.
Too much is worried about down range speed VSkilling power with big conicals. You need to stop thinking speed as much as down range energy. That big chunk of lead will do the rest.