Originally Posted by Swifty52
Originally Posted by ldholton
it's quite useful but it's not gospel. one thing I found that I know isn't right. is a 45.5 grain load of varget in a 308 with a 168 Barnes my gun yields 2740 with that load and it is a published load. but GRT says it's over 80,000 PSI.. which I'm pretty sure is not right even if you loaded it up in mil-spec brass I don't think you would get that high a PSI. but I haven't went through and done though water grain entry and all that for specific brass

Nosler says 46 C with standard cup and core.

Hodgdons says 45.0 C

Barnes says you are 1 grain over max.


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what books that out of ?
mine's the Barn's number four
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