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out futher . bigger combustio chamber. less pressure. load 030 off

Do what?

Sweet Jesus, load some damn rounds and shoot effing thing.

load them .030 of the lands as determined by a hornady comparator .

Pses- what rifle chambered in 30-06 ? what are you going to shoot at with it? i love the 30-06 round ; and the rem 700 pss. ron

Dang it. All this discussion did was bring up the 300 Savage and remind me that I really need one. That's a neat looking little round.

It is a remington 700 deer is what it will be intended for

Well I loaded up some more at 55 grains cause I had only shot to 56 well I loaded up 3 with imr 4350 and .030 off the lands and i only shot 2 of them cause it really flattened the primers so I guess I won't be seating them that far out.

Oh, man, you really need some help.

Primer flattening, despite what you may read ANYWHERE, has almost nothing to do with pressure. Yeah, I know, even some loading manuals mention it, but they shouldn't.

Primers can also flatten when there's a little bit of slack between case and chamber. This doesn't mean unsafe headspace, it just means there's enough slack to allow the case to chamber easily. This is typical of new brass, whether in handloads or factory ammo. When the round is fired, the primer backs out slightly, due to gas coming through the flash-hole. The primer also expands slightly, because it's very thin brass. Finally, the case backs up over the slightly over-sized primer, which appears "flattened" because the primer pocket compresses the primer. THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH PRESSURE, ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.

Ok well I just going by what I have read in the manuals

So why didn't it flatten the primer seated deeper

i would load 49.5 , 50, 50.5 of varget, 168 balistic tip or CBT, (or a 165 balistic tip or a 165 hornady or sierra btsp, or) . i would use lapua brass, 210M primer. i would load all .030 off the lands. If you use I-4350 i would use 56, 56.5 , 57 and 57.5.