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603Country · January 25, 2013, 10:40 PM

I can't speak for the others on why a fellow would need a max load of Varget, but in my case the closer I got to max the better it shot. That's the good news. The bad news is that it still wasn't shooting as good as I wanted or expected it to eventually shoot. I was just about convinced that 27.5 grains of Varget would give me the great shooting load that I wanted, but putting that much Varget in the case was just too slow and troublesome and I was putting a lot of powder on the floor and bench, so I just decided to try some other powders. I didn't want years of trying to pack all that Varget into a little case. Unfortunately, I didn't have a powder that made the 55 gr BT shoot great, but I did have powders that did it for me on the 40 grain BT and the 65 gr GK. But...I still have a hankering (Texas term) to make that darn 55 gr BT shoot well, so I'm sure I eventully will.

January 25, 2013, 10:40 PM	#21
603Country Senior Member Join Date: January 6, 2011 Location: Thornton, Texas Posts: 3,998	I can't speak for the others on why a fellow would need a max load of Varget, but in my case the closer I got to max the better it shot. That's the good news. The bad news is that it still wasn't shooting as good as I wanted or expected it to eventually shoot. I was just about convinced that 27.5 grains of Varget would give me the great shooting load that I wanted, but putting that much Varget in the case was just too slow and troublesome and I was putting a lot of powder on the floor and bench, so I just decided to try some other powders. I didn't want years of trying to pack all that Varget into a little case. Unfortunately, I didn't have a powder that made the 55 gr BT shoot great, but I did have powders that did it for me on the 40 grain BT and the 65 gr GK. But...I still have a hankering (Texas term) to make that darn 55 gr BT shoot well, so I'm sure I eventully will.