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<blockquote data-quote="Roughwater" data-source="post: 689241" data-attributes="member: 33915"><p>Thanks Rich for again replying to my post. I usually try to post things in the hope it will help someone else but am often rewarded with some sort of info I didn't know as in the case of your reply. It forced me to look up the meaning of "secant" as well as Tangent. So now I understand better what you were telling me. Apparently the VLD bullets have a Secant ogive meaning great better BC than a tangent ogive bullet of the same length but more prone to needing loaded to a specific distance from the lands. I kinda knew that, but not in those terms. I kinda thought that way too and started out with loading groups of bullets touching the lands then deeper into the process tried again but they just didn't shoot that well. One thing I discovered when loading Berger bullets and not always having good accuracy into or close to the lands is to follow their website recommendation. That is to make up a group touching then another at .040, another at .080 and lastly another group at .120. They promise one of those groups will shoot well then narrow down from there so that's what I do. I often find that the best shooting group is not the closest to the lands. </p><p> </p><p>Terry</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Roughwater, post: 689241, member: 33915"] Thanks Rich for again replying to my post. I usually try to post things in the hope it will help someone else but am often rewarded with some sort of info I didn't know as in the case of your reply. It forced me to look up the meaning of "secant" as well as Tangent. So now I understand better what you were telling me. Apparently the VLD bullets have a Secant ogive meaning great better BC than a tangent ogive bullet of the same length but more prone to needing loaded to a specific distance from the lands. I kinda knew that, but not in those terms. I kinda thought that way too and started out with loading groups of bullets touching the lands then deeper into the process tried again but they just didn't shoot that well. One thing I discovered when loading Berger bullets and not always having good accuracy into or close to the lands is to follow their website recommendation. That is to make up a group touching then another at .040, another at .080 and lastly another group at .120. They promise one of those groups will shoot well then narrow down from there so that's what I do. I often find that the best shooting group is not the closest to the lands. Terry [/QUOTE]
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