Originally Posted By: Rock KnockerThere is little point to pushing things crazy hard, but one of the only benefits I've seen from a BHW barrel is being able to push things, velocity is what they're good at, accuracy is trickier. They keep pressures down so much it's hard to even push things, you got to go way off the charts to do it.
When I started loading the 65gr it was for a possibility of a hog hunt in the future and I wanted to bring my AR and I wanted something that would hit hard. In my first test batch I shot the best group my gun ever shot, way up at the highest charge I had brought to test, I had it labeled "DANGER". Light pressure signs and not good for brass longevity but this ammo has a mission and 25% of the brass stays in the snow or grass after the first loading, I only shoot them in the winter and less than 100 shots a year.
H335 shoots well in my gun at light or strong loadings with 50-55gr bullets and non magnum primers. Stick powders seem better when pushed hard but accuracy comes apart if the powder is compressed and it pretty much all compresses before pressure signs, you need to move way up in bullet weight or move to a faster burning stick powder.
Here's my one time freak small 3 shot group with this little carbine with CFE and 65 SGK, dont make fun of the target, I look through a 1-4 VXR with fat crosshairs and big circles are easiest to center on.
You should not be shooting H335 in anything with non magnum primers. And you shouldn't be shooting anything but magnum primers in an AR (or any other gun with a floating firing pin).
Remember when you first started handloading and everyone told you to buy a reloading manual? The slam fire danger and that ball powders require magnum primers are in the book.