Most experienced handloaders eventually learn that there are standardized or common velocity thresholds where pressure safety and accuracy can be expected as a reasonable outcome. longer case life will support those velocity ranges per cartridge and the loading manuals have been teaching us that for decades if we listen.

Once a hunter learns that chasing that extra 100fps doesn't mean much in the field and could be the reason that the extra level of accuracy you are wanting is absent, things get a lot easier and a lot safer for the rifleman and his components.

If you want magnum velocity, great, but get it from a magnum case. Life can be simple if you're smarter about it.


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