I’ve said it many times, it’s as much if an art as it is a science. We all learned this in one way or another and the absolute rule is none of us do it the same way, all we can do is bounce ideas off each other and make suggestions. It’s up to you, or in this case me, to make the determination of what to do based on the information given. I will make it or break it and it will all be my problems, either for not listening to sound advice or screwing up and pushing too hard. I thinking that’s a given for all of us at some point.
Think I’ll just keep on keeping on and go back to what I learned in the beginning and build on that. Size them to the gun and shoot and see what the paper and barrel says, the rest can be figured in small adjustments.
Before I deleted Facebook, I read so much BS on the loading pages. Cast questions came up pretty often, and the answers people would give would blow my mind. Had one guy shooting a 500 grain “HARDCAST” in 45-70 iirc and he was shooting it though 6-8-10 2x4s and was bragging about how it didn’t deform or anything. I made the comment if it doesn’t expand it’s not doing what it should. I may as well have kicked a hornets nest, I got schooled about Maximum penetrating power and shooting through and through 3-4-500 pound hogs, blah blah blah. Although I agree a .45x hole through anything and the hydrostatic shock associated with it is going to be (or at least should be)deadly, but imagine if that bullet would expand just a little to like 750 then it would have been something even better in my opinion. Anyway this guy knew it all and that was the end of that. Shortly after that I became tired of That place and decided I needed to remove it from my life. Best thing I ever did.
Point being there is always someone who thinks he knows it all and then there are the ones who do know massive amounts of information. I’d rather be listening to the ones that do. From my experience those lessons of learning come from failures associated with doing something and not giving up. There are few left in the world willing to put the effort into achieving something where you get defeated as much as you succeed.