Quote Originally Posted by MikeHW45 View Post
My HW's sit between 10.5 and 10.8. Its a good balance to be honest. When actually look at the small amount of fps required to increase the muzzle energy significantly it makes sense to run them a bit lower. Still a nice flat trajectory and a greatly reduced recoil for the loss of only around 30 fps
When my standard 97 was at 10.5 it was the sweetest shooting, most accurate rifle I could wish for.