John I forget what Barnes said the velocity was for that RL25 load, and I am working from memory...but as I recall the super slick coating of that XLC blue bullet was supposed to make a difference.

Anyway my velocity reading came from one of those little crony units so who knows(?),but it did come up at about 3200 with the 130 XLC. I didn't think the load was too practical because it was very heavily compressed...lots of crunching....and I was concerned the bullets would back out.

I started to do some testing with conventional bullets ad RL25 but lost track of it.




The 280 Remington is overbore.

The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.