Kachok
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Been itching to find this locally, and I got my copy today But I have been less then impressed thus far only 6.5x55 data is for 100 year old Mausers, and everything else seems on the extreme end of lawyer friendly. 44gr of Varget is supposed to be the max load of a 150gr 308......Come on now guys I don't know anybody who loads them that low. Load data for my 270 WSM was so limited it is simply laughable, and a waste of time. (4 powders for each bullet weight....no kidding) And to make it worse they were all medium powders (near 4350 burn rates) so they were not touching what you could do with the slow burning powders the 270 WSM was designed for such as MagPro and RL22.
Only useful thing I have gotten out of this so far is a couple powders for my 06 that I have never thought to use before.
All in all I am not impressed, not one little bit, this will be the last Hornady manual I ever buy.
BTW I have used Hornady bullets with Nosler and Serria load data for years, and never noticed any increase in pressure with their projectiles. I cannot see any reason to reduce max loads to such an extent unless they had a defective barrel. I have the same rifle they tested their 308 in and have used 4gr over their max (a Nosler load) with no pressure signs, and I use the EXACT same COL and primers they did! Yes I realize that there are micro pressure messureing devices that are much more sensitive then my Federal 210M primers, but you would think going that far over would flatten the hell out of them if 44gr was really the safe pressure threshold.
Anyone else less then impressed with their #9.
Only useful thing I have gotten out of this so far is a couple powders for my 06 that I have never thought to use before.
All in all I am not impressed, not one little bit, this will be the last Hornady manual I ever buy.
BTW I have used Hornady bullets with Nosler and Serria load data for years, and never noticed any increase in pressure with their projectiles. I cannot see any reason to reduce max loads to such an extent unless they had a defective barrel. I have the same rifle they tested their 308 in and have used 4gr over their max (a Nosler load) with no pressure signs, and I use the EXACT same COL and primers they did! Yes I realize that there are micro pressure messureing devices that are much more sensitive then my Federal 210M primers, but you would think going that far over would flatten the hell out of them if 44gr was really the safe pressure threshold.
Anyone else less then impressed with their #9.
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