Well that idea about factoring in early replacement of the gun is sound, and since I have heard so many say mass mass mass then I think I will work up some heavier bullet loads, 180 grain ones or so. The cost is still half of factory ammo with jacketed stuff, so it's not too expensive, and I was thinking of using a lighter load (with lead perhaps) for the chickens and pigs at 50 and 100m and the jacketed heavies for the 150m turkeys and 200m rams.

I'm going to pull them, but please I would like to verify this: In terms of detonation would it be safe to pull these cartridges and load them at 14 grains of powder? (90% of 15.4 grains, which absolutely fills the useable case volume)