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Reloading
Ladder test fail. Stop telling newbs to use advanced techniques.
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<blockquote data-quote="entoptics" data-source="post: 1528035" data-attributes="member: 104268"><p>Hehe. Failure = success. Technically, you're absolutely right.</p><p></p><p>What you may have missed, is that the whole point of my original post was to prove that, in my experience, if a bullet won't shoot, no amount of tweaking will make it otherwise. I'd already abandoned the ELD-X, and only did the ladder test to demonstrate that, for the average reloader, chasing statistically dubious "nodes" won't salvage a bullet that just won't shoot in your gun.</p><p></p><p>I use 140 gr accubonds in this gun when it matters. They still won't win any matches, but from the day I fired the first rounds out of it, they proved to be the best shooters. They should flatten a deer or elk at <400 yds and/or ring a <u>big</u> gong at 1000 yds, which is all this rifle will ever be asked to do.</p><p></p><p>When my old man handed me the thing to develop him an "elk load", I loaded up half a dozen rounds each, of half a dozen popular hunting bullets, and 2 or 3 different powders. Perhaps 100 rounds. In the 2 years since the rifle became "mine" via permanent loan, I've tried a couple hundred rounds of all sorts of other combinations of length/powder/etc, and still haven't found anything <em><u>statistically</u> </em>better than what I handed my dad when I gave the rifle back after my initial load development. 140 NAB over ~60 gr of H1000, ~2950 fps, loaded so they'll barely fit in the magazine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="entoptics, post: 1528035, member: 104268"] Hehe. Failure = success. Technically, you're absolutely right. What you may have missed, is that the whole point of my original post was to prove that, in my experience, if a bullet won't shoot, no amount of tweaking will make it otherwise. I'd already abandoned the ELD-X, and only did the ladder test to demonstrate that, for the average reloader, chasing statistically dubious "nodes" won't salvage a bullet that just won't shoot in your gun. I use 140 gr accubonds in this gun when it matters. They still won't win any matches, but from the day I fired the first rounds out of it, they proved to be the best shooters. They should flatten a deer or elk at <400 yds and/or ring a [U]big[/U] gong at 1000 yds, which is all this rifle will ever be asked to do. When my old man handed me the thing to develop him an "elk load", I loaded up half a dozen rounds each, of half a dozen popular hunting bullets, and 2 or 3 different powders. Perhaps 100 rounds. In the 2 years since the rifle became "mine" via permanent loan, I've tried a couple hundred rounds of all sorts of other combinations of length/powder/etc, and still haven't found anything [I][U]statistically[/U] [/I]better than what I handed my dad when I gave the rifle back after my initial load development. 140 NAB over ~60 gr of H1000, ~2950 fps, loaded so they'll barely fit in the magazine. [/QUOTE]
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