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Originally Posted by dirtyted
Hey all,
New to reloading here. I bought a bunch of 165 grain plated bullets from rocky mountain reloading. I have read online to use cast bullets load data or mild jacketed with the same profile and weight. My manual has a similar shape bullet starting at 5 grains of titegroup. Is that a good starting point? Thanks for any help.
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Welcome.
What manual? Caliber? 40 SW?
As Bob mentioned if 40 SW and 5.1 is max then you are starting too high. A (.1) gr difference is very little and chances of going over it is a great. Manual data will vary from powder manufacturers data sometimes due to different test procedures.