Recent content by Peter Van Dyke

I've been lurking this forum for maybe fifteen years. When I was a kid I had some amazing experiences hunting with my father in Argentina and California. The hunting we did in Argentina was was wasted perhaps on a 10 year old kid at the time. Youth truly is wasted on the young. Nearly as amazing...

I think that I should point out that I am not interested in shifting any body's views on hand loading. I'm simply curious if my musings are valid.

I keep pretty thorough records. I have those numbers and can provide them. But my current interest is hypothetical. My recent shift in hand loading perspective revolves around my deep need to consider constants and variables when looking for a superior way to build a cartridge. When I remove...

Thank you. My interest in this stems from a recent experience after rebarreling my primary rifle with a SS 26" Bartlein heavy varmint barrel. The range that day was busy. We had to shoot at the 50yard range. The first cartridges sent through it were match grade. The five shot group was...

Does anyone have any idea what an average POI dispersal might be for quality barrels due to harmonics?

Are barrel harmonics predictable? Hypothetically, if supplied with identical cartridges will muzzle aim point be consistent?