  Following a recent suggestion by Nielsen, Rugh, and Rugh, we study the energy
scaling of the maximal Lyapunov exponent of classical Hamiltonian SU(2) lattice
gauge theory. It is shown that the conjectured scaling behavior $\lambda_0\sim
E^{1/4}$ at small energies on the lattice is a finite-time artifact. New
numerical results for the maximal Lyapunov exponent are presented for lattices
up to size $20^3$ and over two orders of magnitude in the energy per plaquette.
