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How often do you find its the bullet not the powder combo your gun likes?
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<blockquote data-quote="Calvin45" data-source="post: 2825970" data-attributes="member: 109862"><p>I'm going to assume we're not talking about the same thing here haha. I do know that total bearing surface technically shouldn't matter to intrinsic accuracy potential…my non-technical experience as an imperfect shooter, loader, using imperfect equipment and probably in an imperfect field too <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /> has however been that bullets with very short bearing surfaces (as in total contact with the rifling - now grooved or bore riding or drive band bullets are different, just talking cup and cores here mostly) DO require more fiddling around to find accurate loads with. Not that their inherently less accurate, but they're less "easily accurate" as in slap a load together and go shoot. </p><p></p><p>Sort of like how some cartridges are "inherently accurate" and some are notoriously fussy. It doesn't mean that the fussy ones aren't capable of being every bit as accurate as the easy ones, but the often require more trial and error to find that accuracy and don't shoot lights out with whatever you feed them. The .308s I've worked with you'd just about have to deliberately try to make them shoot poorly with dang near anything you feed them. The .220 swift is no less accurate…provided you feed it 4064 under 55 grain flat bases haha.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calvin45, post: 2825970, member: 109862"] I’m going to assume we’re not talking about the same thing here haha. I do know that total bearing surface technically shouldn’t matter to intrinsic accuracy potential…my non-technical experience as an imperfect shooter, loader, using imperfect equipment and probably in an imperfect field too 🤣 has however been that bullets with very short bearing surfaces (as in total contact with the rifling - now grooved or bore riding or drive band bullets are different, just talking cup and cores here mostly) DO require more fiddling around to find accurate loads with. Not that their inherently less accurate, but they’re less “easily accurate” as in slap a load together and go shoot. Sort of like how some cartridges are “inherently accurate” and some are notoriously fussy. It doesn’t mean that the fussy ones aren’t capable of being every bit as accurate as the easy ones, but the often require more trial and error to find that accuracy and don’t shoot lights out with whatever you feed them. The .308s I’ve worked with you’d just about have to deliberately try to make them shoot poorly with dang near anything you feed them. The .220 swift is no less accurate…provided you feed it 4064 under 55 grain flat bases haha. [/QUOTE]
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