Known safe 338 Edge loads

[midgetorama32]

I am going to break-in the barrel on my Edge soon. To get to my shooting spot takes two hours so I would like to be able to spend a considerable amount of time there shooting and bring a lot of ammunition.

I understand all rifles are different, but would 90 grains of H-1000 and a 300 gr SMK be considered a "safe-in-all-rifles" type of load? The COAL is 3.790".

Thanks.

 

[jeffro]

90grs, was very safe in my Edge. 2788fps. Some lots of powder have been fast, and people were getting preasure at 90gr. If you have a slow lot you should be fine. If your breaking in, just load some up starting at 88gr, and work up and you will know for sure.

 

[Michael Eichele]

For break in purposes, why not save the expensive 300 grain pills and use something like a 225 SST? These are cheap, recoil less and loaded at 90 grains or so is a very low pressure load. That said, I think I have a 'hot' lot of H1000 and I am running 89.5 of H1000 under the 300 grain bullets and the load is safe. I only know of a couple other guys running 90 grains or less.