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Originally Posted by Bergerboy
Not silly at all if you understand diminishing returns when reloading. Chase some speed, set back some lugs, or worse. I load for a friends 3006 with 165gr partitions and it maxes out for pressure at 55gr of IMR 4350. Nosler book claims 57gr is max. The rifle strongly disagrees. Chronograph is your friend when establishing a load. Only fools glue their bolts shut.
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So you are saying 57gr’s of powder would have blown the rifle? Lol. Come on.
I hand load as much as the next guy. Use a chronograph every time and consider it my pressure indicator. Religiously. I am well aware that you can top out on pressure before max. Very aware. What I’m saying is, if someone is blowing the bottom out of their rifle they are doing something far beyond shooting max published data. You may blow primers, you may need a mallet to get your bolt open (big maybe here) but you are not picking pieces of you rifle out of your forehead.