11-14-2020, 03:26 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-14-2020, 03:39 AM by jasper2408.)
StoneHendge Wrote:Were you crunching at 27.9?
I used the Varget data from the Hornady manual and Hornady 123gr ELD-M seated to 2.260" with a Rem 7 1/2 primer and Hornady cases.
I actually loaded up to 28.9gr and it didn't start crunching until 28.3gr. The reason I stopped at 27.9gr was I got black carbon leaking around the primer with a very heavy ejector mark on the brass on that shot. I was using Hornady brass that has been shot 8 times but when I put the primers in all of the pockets were tight and non of them were loose that I noticed or I wouldn't have used the brass with a loose feel when inserting the primer.
I got spooked when I saw the ejector mark and leaky primer so I decided to be on the safe side and stop before I "blew my face off". Maybe I was a little too cautious and should have shot the next shot to see if it continued but I was using data that I had created out of thin air so I decided to quit shooting the rest of the loads.