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DJ,

SAAMI pressure standards are just that, standards and guidelines. As an engineer I know two things, everything has a healthy factor of safety built in (hence the use of proof loads to see where the real breaking point is), and the pressure point for cartridges has more to do with the metallurgy and powders available when the cartridge was introduced than anything else.

Hence, the 6.5X55 and 260 rem have different pressures when the cases are not that different, and the 30-06 and 25-06 and 280 and 270 and 35 whelen have different pressures on virtually the same case, etc., etc. and on and on.

Bottom line: When I get back to the world, I'm trying RL17 and some moly'd Berger 210 VLDs and moly'd 208 grain AMAXs in my heavy barreled Savage, and I'm betting I'll end up right where MM is load wise.

MM - thanks for the link to the Hide. That's good stuff right there.....