length_of_pull_1
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I just started a new workup and have encountered something odd to me. I'm loading up some Hornady 68gr bthp in LC brass and am using IMR 4895 (Why? I guess I thought the pretty purple bottle was nice looking) and going to run it through an AR. I started with 22.5gr and was loading up until I got to 23.75gr and felt some crunch when I seated the bullet (COL 2.260"). The next charge was 24.5gr and I felt some even more significant crunch. My last load up was 25gr and that was shoving those buggers into the case to where I could see a ring of deformation from the seating stem. Neither the Hornady or Lyman manuals I referred to listed this loading as compressed, but it is definitely so. I am a little sketchy on the 25gr loads as they are really jammed full and listed as max loads in my manuals. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!