Thanks for the B/Day wishes Dave...

I know I can push the 40s up to 14.5 grains of Blue Dot...

but 14.5 grains of IMR Blue and things start to get wonky with it...

12.5 of either seems to be a happy compromise or middle ground..
same POI out of my two rifles I've tested it side by side with.
MV is right at 3000 fps on both...

getting older, I spend more time in the slow lane now than in the fast lane...

varmints still go Splat/ KaBoom...

7.5 grains of Unique is working out, without upsetting the neighbors, wasting
some of these darn sage rats that inhabit the creek banks, that border the yard.

"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC

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