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croc4 · July 5, 2006, 11:40 AM

Thanks, I was maybe a little turse in my question and reading it sounded like I blindly loaded up a lot at 7.2gr. I loaded 50 rounds at 6.9, 50 at 7.0 and a few at 7.2, since I am not sure how far to go safely.

As I mentioned I shot 10 or so rounds of factory (non +P) speer "lawman" and they were hot!, the primers showed some signs of cupping and the recoil was noticiably more, I'm not sure I want to shoot the rest of the box and these are standard rounds, maybe they were mis-labled and should have been +P loads....... On the same trip I shot some handloads of AA#5 6.8, and 6.9 and they were mild in comparison, and they grouped ok, not great (2.5" to 3" at 15 yrds) so in search of the best load, I loaded up some 7.0gr.

July 5, 2006, 11:40 AM	#3
croc4 Senior Member Join Date: March 9, 2006 Location: Idaho Posts: 191	Thanks, I was maybe a little turse in my question and reading it sounded like I blindly loaded up a lot at 7.2gr. I loaded 50 rounds at 6.9, 50 at 7.0 and a few at 7.2, since I am not sure how far to go safely. As I mentioned I shot 10 or so rounds of factory (non +P) speer "lawman" and they were hot!, the primers showed some signs of cupping and the recoil was noticiably more, I'm not sure I want to shoot the rest of the box and these are standard rounds, maybe they were mis-labled and should have been +P loads....... On the same trip I shot some handloads of AA#5 6.8, and 6.9 and they were mild in comparison, and they grouped ok, not great (2.5" to 3" at 15 yrds) so in search of the best load, I loaded up some 7.0gr.