In reply to 450no2, thanks for the elephant info and I will keep that in mind.
500grains, that is very impressive shooting. What powder were you using and what velocity were you getting? Just by reading previous posts, Butches 110grains of IMR 4831 is getting around 2050. I have loaded some up and I will chronograph them sometime this week together with RL-15 loads of 94 and 96 grains in both woodleigh softs and solids. My goal, I assume like everyone else is to try and obtain a velocity of as near as possible to the 2150 that the cordite did without losing any accuracy. I remember Geronimo stating that 96 gr of RL-15 did 2150 in his rifle so we'll see what it does in mine.

wadeb