It sounds like he is happy to leave a few fps on the table to get an accurate load with reasonable chamber pressures, I would do the same.
I have made one change in the above plan the Sako will become a 358 Norma Mag since it will be a simple rechambering of the 35 Whelen barrel (I have both a magnum and standard bolt with that action) The 270 Wby will go on my super smooth LH Rem 700 and should end up under 8 lbs pretty easily which will be nice to pack around the mountains here.... I didn't want to sell those guns for next to nothing so I'm keeping them both and am going to end up with both a 270 Wby and 358 Norma. Those two are replacing a 264 WM and 375 Ruger in my line up.
