Ha. That's what I'm trying to minimize... wasting time and components and that crazy rabbit hole I want to stay far away from! I started with 100 brand new Norma cases and have not even fired all of them yet. I now always start a new rifle with new brass, I've had too many headspace issues in the past using cases that were fired in a different rifle. I'm assuming you were chasing the absolute best of the best accurate load with the process you used. I don't necessarily want or need a max load, it's just that a near max load 69.0 showed me one of the 2 best accuracy nodes with new brass. If it was more of a mid-load charge, I would be fine with that. 65.3 just seems less than even mid-load for a 7RM. I don't need 1/4 MOA, my goal with this hunting rifle would be sub-MOA and I have that with both the 65.3 and 69.0 charges with new brass. After reading all these replies I would like to know what accuracy I get from a 1x or 2x fired case with the same charges?? If I can avoid having to fire cases 3x times just to fireform for a sub-MOA load, I would be happy with that. Thanks for the info.