Thread: .243 velocity with 90 grain bullets

People, some wise council.

I gave a late model Sako L579 in .243. With 90 Ballistic tips and 90 grain ELDX's I am loading them up to book max (which is 44.5g of 2209) and chronographed the results at 3220 fps.
The rifle has a 22 inch barrel.
The book speed is 3187 fps for this load in a 24 inch barrel. According to my thinking I am getting more pressure than the book because I am getting more velocity in a two inches shorter barrel.
Off setting this is the notion that we have no pressure signs on the cases, and the .308 is rated higher pressure in the same rifle and cases (62K over 60K)

So its a hot load, but where do you draw the line. Case life will suffer perhaps, but accuracy is excellent, 0.5 - 0.75 of an inch.

I would like to forget I own a chronograph. When I didnt have one I would have just forged ahead