Coyote and Dutch,
I had a straight-grip BLR in .358. Neat rifles! I currently have a pistol-grip one in .325 WSM. Love it.
Anyway I'll pass on something that really worked for me when I was running 200-gn bullets. Just promise to work this one up, big time, as it's waaay over book max. Anyway with 200's RL7 was just great for me; I could get 2650 fps but backed it down to around 2620 fps. This is a load I shot a lot of, at least 400 rounds, and got near-eternal brass life, round primers, just no signs of pressure whatsoever.
43 RL7
F210 primer
necked-up Winchester .308 brass
200-gn Hornady SP
2620 fps from my 20" M7
Then the other thing I wanted to mention was that Neil Jones of Neil Jones Custom Products will do trigger jobs on BLR's; not cheap, but mine is now just at 3 lbs. and clean.
