1) let me say that I previously had a post stating my Maximum OAL on my Tikka T3 Swede was 3.138. that was grossly understated. I recently purchased a Hornady OAL Gauge and verified the ACTUAL Maximum OAL touching the lands is 3.201
This with Lapua Brass and a Berger VLD 140.
I was also having heavy bolt lift and that has been remedied.
With those items taken care of, I have a few questions:
1) I worked up some loads to an OAL of 3.171 (again using lapua brass and vld 140's) How far out can you seat these without issues? I am using a RCBS Competition seating die (micrometer). To try to fine tune, can I seat them out farther, or do I need to start jumping them farther incrementally to try to fine tune?
2) I will post the results below but as You will see, with the RL22 I got to the point where I actually started losing velocity as I increased the charge. There were NO signs of pressure on any of these loads so wondering if that simply indicates I have hit the maximum powder that can be burned before exiting the barrel and thus the groups opening up and the speed decreasing?
Any feedback for a newbie would be greatly appreciated.
RL22: (Grains, Average Velocity, MOA on 3 shots only)
46.0 2581 .61 moa
46.2 2650 .81
46.4 2664 .35
46.6 2680 .52
46.8 2710 .85
47.0 2719 .70
47.2 2723 .57
47.4 2737 .68
47.6 2758 .98
47.8 2759 .43
48.0 2716 .48
48.2 2706 1.03
48.4 2727 .87
48.6 2699 1.36
H4350
44.0 2672 .43
44.3 2648 .42
44.6 2650 .80
44.9 2686 .78
45.2 2735 .68
45.5 2752 .44
