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which dies for a rookie?
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<blockquote data-quote="grit" data-source="post: 91723" data-attributes="member: 4112"><p>Would you mind explaining some of the advantages and disadvantages of the various types of dies. I know I'm asking for a lot of info. What better place to ask?</p><p></p><p>I absolutely intend to stretch to 1000, or however far things'll stretch. My goals at the moment are education, load development, and shooting 500+ before spring. After reading on this forum for a while and watching a few videos, I was eager to try long range shooting and hunting.</p><p>I started by shooting at increasing distances to develop drop charts for the (factory)load my rig shoots best (5/8 @ 100). My first surprise was how much the wind pushed bullets. </p><p>Next I looked up published velocity and bc for my round, and put them in a ballistics program. Off to the field I go. Set up a target at 500, dialed the elevation, and let a couple go. Hmm, No spotter and no glass, Where did they go?</p><p>Drive to the target for a look. 2 holes, two inches apart, five inches right of center. Holy [censored]! Put out some milk jugs! Back at 500 yards, boom-splash, boom-splash!</p><p></p><p>Then I backed up to seven hundred, dialed the listed elevation and let a couple go. They weren't on the target. So I went back to 500, thinking to work my way back. I turned back down to 500. Three shots later, no hits ???</p><p> </p><p>So I moved up to 100, turned the scope back to zero, and let 3 go. Nice pretty group, 2 inches high and 3 inches right. What the??</p><p></p><p>One new scope later I'm ready to try again. But...archery season. Two bulls this year(six points- 280 &amp; 260), one at say a loong 11 feet! The other at thirty yards. I can see parallels between archery and long range rifle.</p><p></p><p>Anyway that's my experience so far. Thanks for the help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="grit, post: 91723, member: 4112"] Would you mind explaining some of the advantages and disadvantages of the various types of dies. I know I'm asking for a lot of info. What better place to ask? I absolutely intend to stretch to 1000, or however far things'll stretch. My goals at the moment are education, load development, and shooting 500+ before spring. After reading on this forum for a while and watching a few videos, I was eager to try long range shooting and hunting. I started by shooting at increasing distances to develop drop charts for the (factory)load my rig shoots best (5/8 @ 100). My first surprise was how much the wind pushed bullets. Next I looked up published velocity and bc for my round, and put them in a ballistics program. Off to the field I go. Set up a target at 500, dialed the elevation, and let a couple go. Hmm, No spotter and no glass, Where did they go? Drive to the target for a look. 2 holes, two inches apart, five inches right of center. Holy [censored]! Put out some milk jugs! Back at 500 yards, boom-splash, boom-splash! Then I backed up to seven hundred, dialed the listed elevation and let a couple go. They weren't on the target. So I went back to 500, thinking to work my way back. I turned back down to 500. Three shots later, no hits ??? So I moved up to 100, turned the scope back to zero, and let 3 go. Nice pretty group, 2 inches high and 3 inches right. What the?? One new scope later I'm ready to try again. But...archery season. Two bulls this year(six points- 280 & 260), one at say a loong 11 feet! The other at thirty yards. I can see parallels between archery and long range rifle. Anyway that's my experience so far. Thanks for the help. [/QUOTE]
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