Quote Originally Posted by Zombie Steve View Post
I usually like to ladder up in 1% jumps in rifle (and usually less as I approach max). In this case, half grain increments. You might skip right over your sweet spot (or the threshold for overpressure). What cartridge are we talking about here? .30-06?

Also - not trying to give you grief or anything, but you know the barnes all copper bullet is going to have a long bearing surface. What your gun likes for this probably won't be plug-and-play with a traditional fmj or amax of the same weight. No free lunch. Load development takes time and effort.


Good luck on shooting the first rifle loads. Be safe.
No grief taken. I shot the 150 gr last year in my .308 Tikka, and really didn't see much accuracy difference between 44 and 47 gr (one grain increments). I'd love to do more experimentation to really hone in on the best load, but with the scarcity of bullets, power and primers, I can't play around as much as I used to. I didn't see any pressure issues at 47 gr with the 150, so perhaps I should just start from there and load 3 at .2 gr increments. First time with the 168s, so I didn't want to jump into max load (45). I realize that the non-Barnes aren't drop in replacements, but as long as they group somewhere (and a known somewhere) I can at least stay shooting over the summer. I don't even have enough RL15 and Varget to load the bullets I do have. At least my arrows are reuseable.