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Old 02-08-2012, 10:54 AM
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I think Rigger hit the nail on the head.

While it may have been accurate, I'd wager that the reason you don't see the same load now, was in fact that it wasn't reasonably safe (from a manufacturing perspective) to continue making, especially if was also expensively marketed/priced.

Again, not saying the ammo was badly made, just saying there is probably a logical reason why they lowered the velocity.

I know of a run of CMP ammo (from few years back) that was extremely accurate, consistent and was erroneously loaded hotter than expected. No problems were reported/encountered, but that load has never gone back into production (despite many, many requests) for this reason. It was safe, but it was too close to the line when factoring in machine wear, human error and just plain old Mr. Murphy popping his head around the corner.

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