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Can a scope cause issues with only vertical stringing?
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<blockquote data-quote="Bigeclipse" data-source="post: 1960104" data-attributes="member: 52437"><p>So I have a new to me rifle. It had 50 rounds down tube from previous owner. I've been trying to work up a load and thought I found a decent load at 100 yards. I did a satterlee load test and found two nodes. I did a little testing on both and found</p><p>A decent load which had tighter group (.6inches at 100 yards). The others were around .8inches. So I loaded up some more of that group and took it out to 400 yards. The horizontal spread of the 3 shot group was less than 3 inches but the vertical spread was like 8 or so inches. Either I have some serious issues with extreme spread in the 3 shots or something else is going on. I know this is not a lot of info but it just really surprised me that the 3 shots were so close to each other horizontally but not vertically. Can a damaged scope do this? I'd think if the scope was damaged, it would shot gun pattern and not vertical string. I'm confident in my loading (use two scales, make sure brass is prepped etc). I was using hammer bullets with h1000 powder. Can a brake cause this? Thoughts?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bigeclipse, post: 1960104, member: 52437"] So I have a new to me rifle. It had 50 rounds down tube from previous owner. I’ve been trying to work up a load and thought I found a decent load at 100 yards. I did a satterlee load test and found two nodes. I did a little testing on both and found A decent load which had tighter group (.6inches at 100 yards). The others were around .8inches. So I loaded up some more of that group and took it out to 400 yards. The horizontal spread of the 3 shot group was less than 3 inches but the vertical spread was like 8 or so inches. Either I have some serious issues with extreme spread in the 3 shots or something else is going on. I know this is not a lot of info but it just really surprised me that the 3 shots were so close to each other horizontally but not vertically. Can a damaged scope do this? I’d think if the scope was damaged, it would shot gun pattern and not vertical string. I’m confident in my loading (use two scales, make sure brass is prepped etc). I was using hammer bullets with h1000 powder. Can a brake cause this? Thoughts? [/QUOTE]
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