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I embrace the suck Bud, No worries
Could you link to a good one (yours or otherwise) or describe your process? I'm still curious what you do after your 1gr ladder you use to find max pressure.
When you find pressure you back off .5 to 1 grain, whatever makes you feel most comfortable, shoot at distance to verify and you let Em eat, 95% of folks that have a grasp on Hammers and how to load them find that a 5-7 grain load work up to pressure all go in the same hole,
Just to be clear and sum it up, your workflow goes like this:
No offense intended but Your wasting mine and everyone else's time playing whatever game you are playing, go start your own thread and find someone else who will entrain your senseless banter,
Dang homie! You just load till you get a sticky bolt lift or ejector smear on the case head and then back off a grain. I've done this for years with regular bullets. Nothing too different for Hammers in this regard. Treat this as an adventure in hand loading and shooting. You don't know everything.
You are wasting your breath. I have been on line since before there was public internet. We had dial in Bulletin Boards. I have always run into people that they "have to be right" even when they know they are not! So I just try move on! Sometimes it's difficult. Sometimes I succeed!
I was nit talking about you, I was talking about SuperBruce!
Welp, friendly fire then. Sorry, I got to seeing red over this SuperBruce and let fly some collateral damage!
No problem! It happens to the best of us! BB is a wealth of knowledge and I will be talking with him and I will be playing with hammers! Just waiting for supplies to be reasonable again!
No games, you engaged me to tell me I was wrong but not why I was wrong. I'm trying my best to understand your process. I do owe the OP @KSB209 an apology, this thread has been inadvertently hijacked. I have read most of the hammer literature on this forum and elsewhere and it's been helpful for finding anecdotes (which are very helpful if you're using those component combos) but I was hoping you would give me your process and the reason why it works because knowing the principles is more generally applicable.
Thank you, this is what I was looking for! The 'load em, shoot em, repeat if necessary but it will probably work the first time' technique that most everyone starts with because its easy and can give very reasonable results. It could have been that simple, you should have chimed in sooner. I absolutely agree that this method works great for many bullets for hunting big game within about 400 yards or so, especially with jump insensitive bullets like hammers and many non-VLD bullets (most older bullet designs), and 400 yards encompasses at least 90+% of shot opportunities. I go a different route for my long range loads but for most realistic hunting loads it's absolutely viable and you'll likely save about 5 to 10 bullets.
