Sooting and not cycling the action are both signs of the load being too light. Like you said 3.6 is the listed max from Hodgdon. That leads me to wonder if you have checked your scale against a standard recently?
Sooting and not cycling the action are both signs of the load being too light. Like you said 3.6 is the listed max from Hodgdon. That leads me to wonder if you have checked your scale against a standard recently?
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I'm not sure how I would go about checking the accuracy of my scale? I know when I weigh a bullet it's around what it should weigh...
And unfortunately I've only got 1 scale