yukon......how the heck are you buddy? I'm at max mag length @ roughly 2.805 OAL. I worked up loads from 43.5 to 48g in .5g increments and got the sticky bolt thing going @ 48. To be honest none of the groups were much over 1". Since I'm getting older and becoming more of a big puzzy I decided that I'd settle for a moderate recoil load around 2800fps and that's where the 45.5 landed. You can see by the pics, the magnum primers, in this case Fed 215M, sucked up the group pretty good. This was the third time I verified this load, comparing CCI BR's and Fed 215M and the Fed sucked them up every time. Mule Deer gave me the tip and it worked wonderfully. Hope that helps.
BTW, I was lusting over the pics of your modified Tikkas on that other thread......way sweet my friend.
