When you are developing a load for a large magnum rifle how many loads do you make working your way up to the max? In this case I'm working up a load for my 7mm Remington Magnum.
When reloading for my 6.5x55 I usually take the difference of grains between the max and starting load and divide by 4 to give me a total of 5 loads. For a load on my 7mm I just developed however, that means each load was an increase of 1.7g of powder. That seems like a large jump in powder between loads.
What do you think, should I limit the jump in powder to 1g? Increase the number of loads to 7 or 8?
If I'm developing this for hunting and I know that I'm not going to use the minimum loads, should I start more in the lower-end of the middle powder weight and then work in smaller increments up to max?
When reloading for my 6.5x55 I usually take the difference of grains between the max and starting load and divide by 4 to give me a total of 5 loads. For a load on my 7mm I just developed however, that means each load was an increase of 1.7g of powder. That seems like a large jump in powder between loads.
What do you think, should I limit the jump in powder to 1g? Increase the number of loads to 7 or 8?
If I'm developing this for hunting and I know that I'm not going to use the minimum loads, should I start more in the lower-end of the middle powder weight and then work in smaller increments up to max?
