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What situation was your break through moment in reloading?
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<blockquote data-quote="5.56×250" data-source="post: 1662765" data-attributes="member: 110162"><p>For me it was bullet run out. Years ago, I started reloading for a savage I rebarreled to 223. Just a fun gun to impress myself with on a 100yd bench i setup in my back yard. Crows in a 1500acre field behind my property also called to me and that gun.</p><p> All I used was the most basic RCBS dies and a partner kit. For a while I could group 3 of 5 in a ragged hole and yje others would open me up to 1/2" group or so. One day I was just examining a few of my loads and rolled them across a glass table. Some rolled and looked like they were still sitting still and others would show the end of the bullet bouncing up and down. I did some testing by eyeballing loads rolled across the table and putting them in lots. The ones that didnt wobble would be in one group and the wobblers in another. Sat down at the bench and commenced to shooting groups that would measure in the .10-.20s with the straight ones and groups over 3/4" with the bad ones ! I bought a run out checker from RCBS and actually STRAIGHTENED my loaded rounds from there on out by rolling them on the gauge, finding the high side and gently pushing the bullet the other way, check, repeat, till they all spun true. I would load 25 rounds every weekend and shoot 5 5 shot groups just to see the groups . That gun AVERAGED under 1/4" consistently over several hundred rounds.</p><p> So, runout was the big turning point for me in the quest for accurate handloads.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="5.56×250, post: 1662765, member: 110162"] For me it was bullet run out. Years ago, I started reloading for a savage I rebarreled to 223. Just a fun gun to impress myself with on a 100yd bench i setup in my back yard. Crows in a 1500acre field behind my property also called to me and that gun. All I used was the most basic RCBS dies and a partner kit. For a while I could group 3 of 5 in a ragged hole and yje others would open me up to 1/2" group or so. One day I was just examining a few of my loads and rolled them across a glass table. Some rolled and looked like they were still sitting still and others would show the end of the bullet bouncing up and down. I did some testing by eyeballing loads rolled across the table and putting them in lots. The ones that didnt wobble would be in one group and the wobblers in another. Sat down at the bench and commenced to shooting groups that would measure in the .10-.20s with the straight ones and groups over 3/4" with the bad ones ! I bought a run out checker from RCBS and actually STRAIGHTENED my loaded rounds from there on out by rolling them on the gauge, finding the high side and gently pushing the bullet the other way, check, repeat, till they all spun true. I would load 25 rounds every weekend and shoot 5 5 shot groups just to see the groups . That gun AVERAGED under 1/4" consistently over several hundred rounds. So, runout was the big turning point for me in the quest for accurate handloads. [/QUOTE]
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