Fairly New to reloading so be gentle. Ha.
I've loaded some mid of the road loads for playing at the range, but now I'm going to take a shot a doing a true load work up for my Tikka 308. Afer reading Forms "painless Load development", it really makes since of the logic. The gun will shoot the recipe or it won't. Change out 1 component and retry. So, lets say max load using Varget is 46.5 grain.
My hypothetical plan is to load:
(5) 45.5
(5) 46
(5) 46.5
Go to local range and test fire. If no pressure signs are found, shoot the remaining for groups. 45.5 and 46 look to group very well, but I get high pressure at 46.5 grains. So I stop. So it appears that if I'm satisficed with the grouping and velocities of 46 grains then that my go to other than seating depth and other factor if i want to fine tune.
I'm still sitting there with 4 loaded rounds of high pressure at 46.5. What do you guys do with them?
I've loaded some mid of the road loads for playing at the range, but now I'm going to take a shot a doing a true load work up for my Tikka 308. Afer reading Forms "painless Load development", it really makes since of the logic. The gun will shoot the recipe or it won't. Change out 1 component and retry. So, lets say max load using Varget is 46.5 grain.
My hypothetical plan is to load:
(5) 45.5
(5) 46
(5) 46.5
Go to local range and test fire. If no pressure signs are found, shoot the remaining for groups. 45.5 and 46 look to group very well, but I get high pressure at 46.5 grains. So I stop. So it appears that if I'm satisficed with the grouping and velocities of 46 grains then that my go to other than seating depth and other factor if i want to fine tune.
I'm still sitting there with 4 loaded rounds of high pressure at 46.5. What do you guys do with them?