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<blockquote data-quote="25WSM" data-source="post: 1776531" data-attributes="member: 38048"><p>The books are suggested loads. Every rifle chamber and barrel and brass and powder lot and bullets are going to have tolerances. These things in combination with barrel wear and temperature and seating depth and primer are all so many variables the books can't get it all perfect. That's why when you look in 6 books at the same load you have 6 different weights listed. I always use the age old adage that you start at a safe level and work up. When you see the first sign of pressure you stop and back up. I know guys will say all kinds of things about what pressure is good ones or bad ones. Any pressure sign is pressure. Period. I'm not talking about a crater on a primer that is 10thou to loose firing pin although if it closed metal back their your pushing some pressure. Guys are talking that their bolt lift is not sticky. Primers are slightly flat. Ejector marks are normal on soft Norma brass. These guys claim 200 fps faster than advertised and none of these signs but the primer falls out after 2 shots. They are getting pressure and choosing one over the other to keep pushing. Custom actions that are timed perfect and lubed properly typically won't have hard bolt lift until it's lights out on the primer falling out. People say Hornady and Norma have soft brass. But it passes their spec and if you have deep ejector marks you are probably over pressure. My Creed is supposed to go 2700 fps, in my 29 inch tube it goes 2850 with no pressure and I get 12 shots per brass. My rifle will shoot a 147eldm 3050 and not blow a primer or have hard bolt lift with rl26. But you get that one shot and the brass is toast. I can't afford to run my guns that way. I will run a load over book in a second if I haven't seen any signs of pressure getting to that point. So don't worry about a little jump over book if you are reading all the signs. By the way my Creed has a . 275 thou freebore that clears a lot of room for powder. Nice thing about a long action on a 300wsm is you can throat the heck out of it and they love it. There are all kinds of ways to get false positive pressure so you need to take this into account also. Go have some fun.</p><p>Shep</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="25WSM, post: 1776531, member: 38048"] The books are suggested loads. Every rifle chamber and barrel and brass and powder lot and bullets are going to have tolerances. These things in combination with barrel wear and temperature and seating depth and primer are all so many variables the books can't get it all perfect. That's why when you look in 6 books at the same load you have 6 different weights listed. I always use the age old adage that you start at a safe level and work up. When you see the first sign of pressure you stop and back up. I know guys will say all kinds of things about what pressure is good ones or bad ones. Any pressure sign is pressure. Period. I'm not talking about a crater on a primer that is 10thou to loose firing pin although if it closed metal back their your pushing some pressure. Guys are talking that their bolt lift is not sticky. Primers are slightly flat. Ejector marks are normal on soft Norma brass. These guys claim 200 fps faster than advertised and none of these signs but the primer falls out after 2 shots. They are getting pressure and choosing one over the other to keep pushing. Custom actions that are timed perfect and lubed properly typically won't have hard bolt lift until it's lights out on the primer falling out. People say Hornady and Norma have soft brass. But it passes their spec and if you have deep ejector marks you are probably over pressure. My Creed is supposed to go 2700 fps, in my 29 inch tube it goes 2850 with no pressure and I get 12 shots per brass. My rifle will shoot a 147eldm 3050 and not blow a primer or have hard bolt lift with rl26. But you get that one shot and the brass is toast. I can't afford to run my guns that way. I will run a load over book in a second if I haven't seen any signs of pressure getting to that point. So don't worry about a little jump over book if you are reading all the signs. By the way my Creed has a . 275 thou freebore that clears a lot of room for powder. Nice thing about a long action on a 300wsm is you can throat the heck out of it and they love it. There are all kinds of ways to get false positive pressure so you need to take this into account also. Go have some fun. Shep [/QUOTE]
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