RE: Question about load developement..your opinions please
Toby,
I guess that method must have worked for you in the past, but since you asked for what we think here is my opinion.
Keep it simple.
The biggest variable is your bullet, try a couple different bullets and a couple different powders, I have good luck with RL-22 and H-4831 in that caliber. Try consistently accurate bullets like Nosler ballistic tips and Federal Gameking boat tails for deer and maybe a Nosler Partition if you are so inclined.
Use once fired neck sized brass trimmed to uniform lengths. Try Federal bench rest large rifle primers, start 3 grains below max and go up in 1 grain increments to max. Seat your bullets just off the lands.
So you have two powders and two bullets and 3 different powder loads for each.
Two three shot groups of each bullet and powder combination.
Lose the full length resized brass test and the crimped test.
If you don' t get good groups with any combination try 2 different bullets and start over. With these bullets and powders you should get some good groups right off the bat.
Anyway that is the method I use.