I’ve got an 18” tikka (wide land cut down by class 3 machine before they closed shop). Initial tests with 135 A tips and h4831 SC are slower than I wanted, but this barrel has sub 100 rounds through it, so hopefully it will speed up.
My plan is to run 130s for hunting (primarily deer as I have yet to draw an elk tag, and would probably have another barrel spun up for elk). I just need to decide between the 130 Sierra game changer, 130 Berger vld hunting, 130 eldm, or 129 ablr.
The only powders I have on hand and avaliable locally are h4831sc, h1000, h4350, varget. I’ve been searching for n560/565 with no luck. I also intend to try load work again using magnum primers if I can find some.