I'll stick with the load data currently at my finger tips. Nosler with their who-knows-why 26" barrel testing for the 7-08 maxed out at 3260 with their 120bt. Heck, Alliant was only able to push the 110sp to 3240...which probably doesn't matter as that bullet is history as far as I can tell.
Also, I was told long ago that primer cups indications are no fail safe. What if the primers cup happened to be harder than usual?
Plus, as has been said many times on here, dead is dead. 150 fps faster isn't going to kill them deader. Put it in the right place and get your knife out.
My fellow, distinguished keyboard jockeys, I was/am not trying to push any limits here. As I said, the load I settled on is .6 grains below max on the hodgdon site for a 120 nbt. Sure, the velocity seems a little out there, but it is what I am seeing. (12 times for the max load, on 2 different occasions). Feel free to question my chrony, but I will tell you many different rifles have shot over that chrony and I personally do not have a reason to doubt it. For perspective, 45 grains of Varget and a 120 ttsx registers 3000 fps on that chrony. Seem about right?
