Interesting. I wasn't anticipating you'd need to do that. Hope it works out okay.

Good advice 'OL BW. The trouble with the RL-7 is that 25 grains pretty well fills my Lapua cases up to the neck. There just isn't room for much more. I've put 25.5 grains in before, but I can literally feel the bullet crushing the powder when I seat it to any reasonable depth, so I backed off to 25. I'm still compressing it, but one can't argue with the near one-hole accuracy I'm getting. I'll sacrifice 50 fps. for a bullet that hits exactly where I aim, every time.

But I'd be lying if I didn't say I wished for a little more case capacity so I could chunk those 160's downrange at 2350 like my 30-30 does.