deerhunter61
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MinnMooney
I do not disagree with what you are saying at all. But for me personally this is about reloading accuracy as well as rifle accuracy and when I reload I only load 3 powder/bullet combinations to see if the rounds are accurate. If I can find a 3 round group that performs at an inch or better then as I stated earlier I try to duplicate it. This is primarily to save $$$$. If I can duplicate it then I work it up with more loads and see what the groups perform like then. I am not really trying to get benchrest accuracy here. And for the groups listed above when I take them to 5-10 shot groups they invaribly will be a little bigger but frankly that is more on me and my shooting skills than it is the rifle or loads. I tend to get a little impatient waiting for the barrels to cool and last night in order to shoot all 5 rounds out of this rifle and 6 rounds out of my 6.5 I was more impatient than normal and although I did allow the barrel to cool down perhaps this time not quite enough....? and then for the last two rounds I rushed and yanked a shot...AGH. But the 5th shot when I settled down I put it right back in the middle of the group.
Everything stated above has a lot of value. I guess my point to all of this is that I do not want to start with 3 round groups of greater than an inch to work up 5-10 shot groups and then take those into the woods to hunt with. At the end of the day is it possible that some of the 1.5 inch groups or above could shoot 10 shot groups at the same MOA of some of my less than 1 inch groups...possibly...maybe even probably. Perhaps that is something I can test.
I do not disagree with what you are saying at all. But for me personally this is about reloading accuracy as well as rifle accuracy and when I reload I only load 3 powder/bullet combinations to see if the rounds are accurate. If I can find a 3 round group that performs at an inch or better then as I stated earlier I try to duplicate it. This is primarily to save $$$$. If I can duplicate it then I work it up with more loads and see what the groups perform like then. I am not really trying to get benchrest accuracy here. And for the groups listed above when I take them to 5-10 shot groups they invaribly will be a little bigger but frankly that is more on me and my shooting skills than it is the rifle or loads. I tend to get a little impatient waiting for the barrels to cool and last night in order to shoot all 5 rounds out of this rifle and 6 rounds out of my 6.5 I was more impatient than normal and although I did allow the barrel to cool down perhaps this time not quite enough....? and then for the last two rounds I rushed and yanked a shot...AGH. But the 5th shot when I settled down I put it right back in the middle of the group.
Everything stated above has a lot of value. I guess my point to all of this is that I do not want to start with 3 round groups of greater than an inch to work up 5-10 shot groups and then take those into the woods to hunt with. At the end of the day is it possible that some of the 1.5 inch groups or above could shoot 10 shot groups at the same MOA of some of my less than 1 inch groups...possibly...maybe even probably. Perhaps that is something I can test.