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Reloading
First time at the range with my reloads - no one died
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<blockquote data-quote="SteelBanger" data-source="post: 1899290" data-attributes="member: 112192"><p>First, congrats on successfully loading and shooting your first hand loads. And welcome to the addiction!</p><p></p><p>I'd highly suggest googling the satterlee load ladder process and trying that out next using a chronograph. Shooting for groups to find your optimal powder charge can provide inaccurate results, for me at least. Let's say you shoot a 3 round group of 45.5gr at 100y at .5 MOA and call that your best power charge because the group was amazing ... then you shoot a group of 47.0gr at 1.5 MOA and say the load sucked. It's possible that that .5 MOA 45.5gr load gave you terrible SD and ES numbers but happened to group together that day, while the 47gr load gave you single digit SD / ES but you had an off day at the range and pulled a 1.5 MOA group. </p><p></p><p>Using the Satterlee ladder process you should be able to identify a steady velocity node (or two) within 10-12 shots, and then fine tune things from there. This method takes the shooter out of the equation and is why I rely on it ... because I know my shooting skills are not yet refined enough to rely on for shooting groups for load data. Not saying your shooting isn't capable, but why not take yourself out of the equation if you can?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SteelBanger, post: 1899290, member: 112192"] First, congrats on successfully loading and shooting your first hand loads. And welcome to the addiction! I’d highly suggest googling the satterlee load ladder process and trying that out next using a chronograph. Shooting for groups to find your optimal powder charge can provide inaccurate results, for me at least. Let’s say you shoot a 3 round group of 45.5gr at 100y at .5 MOA and call that your best power charge because the group was amazing ... then you shoot a group of 47.0gr at 1.5 MOA and say the load sucked. It’s possible that that .5 MOA 45.5gr load gave you terrible SD and ES numbers but happened to group together that day, while the 47gr load gave you single digit SD / ES but you had an off day at the range and pulled a 1.5 MOA group. Using the Satterlee ladder process you should be able to identify a steady velocity node (or two) within 10-12 shots, and then fine tune things from there. This method takes the shooter out of the equation and is why I rely on it ... because I know my shooting skills are not yet refined enough to rely on for shooting groups for load data. Not saying your shooting isn’t capable, but why not take yourself out of the equation if you can? [/QUOTE]
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