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Reloading
Accuracy or low ES?
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<blockquote data-quote="barefooter56" data-source="post: 1043954" data-attributes="member: 85389"><p>bill123,</p><p>Longer TOF = more time for mother nature to push your bullet sideways. KYpatriot, Ridgerunner and dkhunter have great advice and answers to help. The only thing I would add is make sure your rifle is fouled enough that the bullet strikes on the fouling target have stopped rising and are now clustering for BOTH your group shooting and Chronograph testing. If you want to take the factors of light, and height of the bullet over the sensors get a Magneto Speed . It reads off the magnetic field so you can test velocity in any light condition and comes with spacers to adjust the bullet flight height over the sensors. Many shooters have reported no affect on point of impact on the target even though the unit attaches to the barrel. Also keep good notes in your reloading log book and ONLY CHANGE ONE THING AT A TIME WHEN YOU TEST!! SD is the most important unit to pay attention too as has been said before. But the TARGET is always the final arbiter no matter what the distance. Lots of good advice here Bill , but it will take some work. There are no shortcuts to accuracy unless you get lucky and the first combination works.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="barefooter56, post: 1043954, member: 85389"] bill123, Longer TOF = more time for mother nature to push your bullet sideways. KYpatriot, Ridgerunner and dkhunter have great advice and answers to help. The only thing I would add is make sure your rifle is fouled enough that the bullet strikes on the fouling target have stopped rising and are now clustering for BOTH your group shooting and Chronograph testing. If you want to take the factors of light, and height of the bullet over the sensors get a Magneto Speed . It reads off the magnetic field so you can test velocity in any light condition and comes with spacers to adjust the bullet flight height over the sensors. Many shooters have reported no affect on point of impact on the target even though the unit attaches to the barrel. Also keep good notes in your reloading log book and ONLY CHANGE ONE THING AT A TIME WHEN YOU TEST!! SD is the most important unit to pay attention too as has been said before. But the TARGET is always the final arbiter no matter what the distance. Lots of good advice here Bill , but it will take some work. There are no shortcuts to accuracy unless you get lucky and the first combination works. [/QUOTE]
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