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how important is case length to accuracy?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lefty7mmstw" data-source="post: 829441" data-attributes="member: 48043"><p>+1</p><p>Many moons ago I had little access to reloading equipment and hardly had any time to do case prep and cleaning. My reloads looked like hell, I tossed charges, and I didn't trim until they were seriously over length, but I still managed to bag my deer every year, shoot prarie dogs with my savage pistol like they were going out of style, and put custom rifles to shame consistantly at the range with lowly factory rigs. </p><p>I had set my pipes up with loads that simply didn't really need the case prep to stay well below moa. I'm sure I could have shaved a few thou. off a group here or there with prepped brass but it worked. I do now prep my brass to a point but I believe in the K.I.S.S. principal and won't do anything that is simply make work.</p><p>Back when I lived with my parents my Pops was getting perturbed at my grousing on primers and powders so he had me do an experiment with my '06. We took a known 1/2 moa load with the rifle and loaded it with three brands of brass and three different primer brands. The resulting scrub ammo was still sub moa. I realize not all combos will do this and if you are to close to the top if could be somewhat dangerous, but you may want to get a bigger rifle if you really need to run red line all the time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lefty7mmstw, post: 829441, member: 48043"] +1 Many moons ago I had little access to reloading equipment and hardly had any time to do case prep and cleaning. My reloads looked like hell, I tossed charges, and I didn't trim until they were seriously over length, but I still managed to bag my deer every year, shoot prarie dogs with my savage pistol like they were going out of style, and put custom rifles to shame consistantly at the range with lowly factory rigs. I had set my pipes up with loads that simply didn't really need the case prep to stay well below moa. I'm sure I could have shaved a few thou. off a group here or there with prepped brass but it worked. I do now prep my brass to a point but I believe in the K.I.S.S. principal and won't do anything that is simply make work. Back when I lived with my parents my Pops was getting perturbed at my grousing on primers and powders so he had me do an experiment with my '06. We took a known 1/2 moa load with the rifle and loaded it with three brands of brass and three different primer brands. The resulting scrub ammo was still sub moa. I realize not all combos will do this and if you are to close to the top if could be somewhat dangerous, but you may want to get a bigger rifle if you really need to run red line all the time. [/QUOTE]
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