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Christensen Carbon Barrels on Custom Rifles. Accuracy?
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<blockquote data-quote="FURMAN" data-source="post: 1499056" data-attributes="member: 26535"><p>I will be the outlier here. I see ZERO valuable data from shooting the way you did at 100 yards. To do a ladder you need to have enough distance to make the es of the load separate the good from the bad. If shooting at 100 yards you should do an OCW test but I have found certain rifles/cartridges do the same as above and you can not find which is the node so in those cases I still ended up doing a real ladder at 500 plus yards. In my experience finding the load the way you are is just dumb luck especially when you go farther out and change temp or altitude. Obviously I can not tell others what to do. It is your decision. Just do not be surprised when the rifle will not repeat or flat out won't group. I have tried every load development method on the net and the most repeatable is a true ladder shot at 800-1000 yards period. I have taken known great loads and done what your pics depict and they will typically have those results but I have only been about 50/50 going the other way. The only reason I will do what you did now is to look for pressure and the fliers away from the center of the "group" are never where the node is but that does not necessarily mean the "group" is a node. Take it or leave it. I have been there done that. These overbore cartridges most of us shoot have too short of barrel life to messing with methods that do not work or eat too many components and precious barrel life.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FURMAN, post: 1499056, member: 26535"] I will be the outlier here. I see ZERO valuable data from shooting the way you did at 100 yards. To do a ladder you need to have enough distance to make the es of the load separate the good from the bad. If shooting at 100 yards you should do an OCW test but I have found certain rifles/cartridges do the same as above and you can not find which is the node so in those cases I still ended up doing a real ladder at 500 plus yards. In my experience finding the load the way you are is just dumb luck especially when you go farther out and change temp or altitude. Obviously I can not tell others what to do. It is your decision. Just do not be surprised when the rifle will not repeat or flat out won't group. I have tried every load development method on the net and the most repeatable is a true ladder shot at 800-1000 yards period. I have taken known great loads and done what your pics depict and they will typically have those results but I have only been about 50/50 going the other way. The only reason I will do what you did now is to look for pressure and the fliers away from the center of the "group" are never where the node is but that does not necessarily mean the "group" is a node. Take it or leave it. I have been there done that. These overbore cartridges most of us shoot have too short of barrel life to messing with methods that do not work or eat too many components and precious barrel life. [/QUOTE]
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