i do think my 30-06 brass will last forever with 47.1 grains of varget and 200 grains mild and still very accurate at least in the hands of my wife.
Why using that extra two grains of powder is not likely getting you much!
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i do think my 30-06 brass will last forever with 47.1 grains of varget and 200 grains mild and still very accurate at least in the hands of my wife.
Out to 300 yards it makes no difference if your shooting beyond that then that extra juice is necessary -
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well perhaps backing off from 76grn to 74grn might make shooting the 458 a little less violent..... 
well not really
well not reallywell perhaps backing off from 76grn to 74grn might make shooting the 458 a little less violent.....
that s a pretty light load in a 458 ... not even a 375 level ...
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ah ok with varget.
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H332 with a 400grn speer
If the spirit of the post is that a couple grains of powder one way or the other isn’t going to change your hunting success much on big game animals under 300 yards its hard to argue.
Thing is; at close range like that nothing much else matters much either. Theres a lot of big game hunting done on on animals that aren’t that big, or that tough, or that far away. As targets go, the vitals are large. Accuracy within reason isn’t particularly important at powder burn ranges like that, wind is just something to keep in your face, trajectory is a non issue , and anything worth closing a bolt on will hit with a pretty good smack. If you swung a dead cat in a gun store you’d knock down several perfectly adequate general purpose big game rifles. It would help if you were close to the bolt actions between 6.5 and 8 mm or so, but much of it could be taken care of using this selection criteria down by the muzzleloaders.
Thing is; once you step out of that seemingly broad; but limited window some things start mattering a little; and eventually everything starts mattering a lot.
Thing is; at close range like that nothing much else matters much either. Theres a lot of big game hunting done on on animals that aren’t that big, or that tough, or that far away. As targets go, the vitals are large. Accuracy within reason isn’t particularly important at powder burn ranges like that, wind is just something to keep in your face, trajectory is a non issue , and anything worth closing a bolt on will hit with a pretty good smack. If you swung a dead cat in a gun store you’d knock down several perfectly adequate general purpose big game rifles. It would help if you were close to the bolt actions between 6.5 and 8 mm or so, but much of it could be taken care of using this selection criteria down by the muzzleloaders.
Thing is; once you step out of that seemingly broad; but limited window some things start mattering a little; and eventually everything starts mattering a lot.
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