mathman,

Sorry for the late come back. Been hunting with son. Anyway as for the mild load of 44.0 with Varget I have it now at 44.2g of Varget and will probably increase it a little more until I see pressure. I have a chrono but at the LGS range it is hard to set up so I have not used it yet. This rifle seems to shoot better .050 from the lands (ogive) but at time it seem to live it off lands by .020 and it seem to be a little inconsistent. Will keep working with it primarily bec components for .308 are rather easy to find. I should mnention I am often getting 2 shots touching and then one shot is like 1" or so away. Thanks for chiming in. BTW I have not tried the H4895 powder and may try that although the consensus is Varget is the preferred powder for this combo.