[frumious]

Hi All,

Do you always carefully work up a load for a rifle (using published data), or do you just try a couple of "guesstimate" loads (again, staying within published data) and see what happens? We always talk about working up loads but then I read stuff sometimes where someone just tries a load and it works out great, or someone tries a couple of different loads and they don't work and then goes searching for what might be wrong other than the powder/bullet/brass/primer combo.

Also, is it worth working up a load right away in a factory-new rifle or should you put a few hundred rounds down the pipe for break-in before you try to wring any accuracy out of it?

-cls