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<blockquote data-quote="Bigeclipse" data-source="post: 1035989" data-attributes="member: 52437"><p>I don't like loading up a bunch of bullets until I know my rifles max. What I have been doing is loading one bullet in .5gr increments until I start seeing small pressure signs which has not happened until today. I used to stop at book max values. Today I did not have a book value...I had a hodgdon data equivalent so I shot .5 grain increments until the hodgdon value and then went 1.5 grains above that in .5 grain increments looking for ANY sign of pressure. I got that slight bolt lift mixed with a very slight flattened primer at 1.5grs above the hodgdon listed value so now I know for my ladder test to only load rounds up to 1 grain less than that value I had today and I will be safe...basically I confirmed that the hodgdon max load was close and just short of my rifles safe max load.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bigeclipse, post: 1035989, member: 52437"] I don't like loading up a bunch of bullets until I know my rifles max. What I have been doing is loading one bullet in .5gr increments until I start seeing small pressure signs which has not happened until today. I used to stop at book max values. Today I did not have a book value...I had a hodgdon data equivalent so I shot .5 grain increments until the hodgdon value and then went 1.5 grains above that in .5 grain increments looking for ANY sign of pressure. I got that slight bolt lift mixed with a very slight flattened primer at 1.5grs above the hodgdon listed value so now I know for my ladder test to only load rounds up to 1 grain less than that value I had today and I will be safe...basically I confirmed that the hodgdon max load was close and just short of my rifles safe max load. [/QUOTE]
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