Barrel length

[Harpoon1]

Just read though your thread
Those Velocities are more what I remember from my last howa 20”
Seem to remember it being reasonably easy to get upto around 2600 with a 123
Every howa I have owned (about 20 in all sorts of Cals) have liked being loaded hot

Modern load data is a joke
I have some old loading manuals from the 80’s
And with common caliber’s and very common and unchanged powders they can be upto 5gns over what the modern manuals say

The way I load is i load up 2 rounds of each charge starting about halfway between min and max
(Im not interested in Minimum loads Especially in Hunting rifles)
Till about 3gn over max or till I get a compressed load
With a bigger case.5gn Increments with the Grendel I use.3gn

And shoot keeping a close eye on pressure signs also take the crony to give me an idea of speeds
At the 1st sign of pressure i stop shooting and pull left over rounds
I set my maximum load for that Combination .5 below where I started seeing pressure

And I then look for accuracy nodes in the velocity range I want

Typically works really well I don’t really except anything less than 1/2 moa even though 1moa would be fine it’s typically easy to get smaller than that howa’s shoot fantastic thats what I love about them

Yep agree.

I initially went .4 this time because it was the first time using Lever and wanted to start low, then cover a lot of ground. Then went a conservative .2 over the “perceived” SAAMI max. I hate pulling bullets and generally only just load one round per when looking for pressure. As you saw, speeds were very well behaved and the gun handled it easily.