Mr. Bob, I don't know whether your info is obsolete or you just don't know (ignorant).??
LOL, nothing like someone quoting Bob Hagel's load data and using it to label someone else's as obsolete or label the other guy ignorant....
Originally Posted by Ken Howell
Originally Posted by Chetaf
I was looking through Bob Hagel's book over the weekend and noticed that his reloading data for the 7mm RM and a few other cartridges seems to be pretty darn hot. As I recall, some of his loads for the 7mm RM using H4831 and IMR4831 were up to five grains higher than the max load in the Nosler manual.
Is this due to differences in the powder that was available then, or was he willing to push the envelope more than the bullet manufacturers?
The latter.
As his Editor, I often had to delete wildly excessive load data from his Handloader articles. I didn't edit his books.
He bulged a few chambers because "the barrels were too soft." Paul Marquart rebarreled a few of Bob's rifles because of that "flaw" in the original barrels.
