Thread: Hot Data?

I my own guns I start medium powder charge and work up to near max or till I see pressure then back off a grain or two for long strings of fire on goats etc the barrels gets bloody way to hot to touch. On mates guns and I start lowest charge work up till I get best accuracy with a safe mid weight charge then they can shoot it however they like hard and fast dump a couple of magazines or just one shot for the trip. I say to them if want to go faster get a bigger gun. From using subs for hunting velocity isn’t everything, just dail the drop most guys do now days anyway and the animals won’t know the difference.

Had two mates reck the guns from pushing their charge weights to high, they were ok in the cold at sea level but a hot days high altitudes summer chamois hunts blew the bolts. I learned off that way over max charge weight and not my reloads ether.