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How do you lower S.D.?
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<blockquote data-quote="goodgrouper" data-source="post: 189314" data-attributes="member: 2852"><p>Steve,</p><p></p><p>Your last post makes sense and you present it well. I have no problem agreeing to disagree with people who debate tactfully. It's the ones who don't present any evidence yet proclaim everyone else wrong that bother me.</p><p></p><p>While I disagree with your methods, our end results are similair. And you only debated the use of a chronograph not the ballistic facts of yaw, and nutation and so forth.</p><p></p><p>One other thing I would like to point out here: You said that paper tuning is sufficient and accomplishes the goal of small groups and I agree. But you also said something like "based on my experience, I will know what to do to change my load". My point is that without that experience of "knowing what to do", a beginner (like the original poster) might be better served working on the load "through" the chronograph. But again, if he knows his distance and has excellent conditions, he can paper tune and solve his problem too. I use a chronograph because my clients are wanting as much of their barrel life as possible left after I develop a load and I live out west where the spaces are wide open and winds are fierce. A calm day out here is rare and most of our shooting ranges are in the mouths of big canyons so excellent conditions to tune in at 1k are almost non-existant. With the help of a chrono, I can isolate the low sd loads and see how accurate they are at close to mid range. Then, I test them at long range and when the conditions don't cooperate, I can use my experience to seperate the natural dispersion of the load from the conditions and determine if the load is good. If the group is satisfactory in the conditions and the chrono told me previously that the sd's were good, then I know I'm on track and the rifle goes back to the client. Make sense?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="goodgrouper, post: 189314, member: 2852"] Steve, Your last post makes sense and you present it well. I have no problem agreeing to disagree with people who debate tactfully. It's the ones who don't present any evidence yet proclaim everyone else wrong that bother me. While I disagree with your methods, our end results are similair. And you only debated the use of a chronograph not the ballistic facts of yaw, and nutation and so forth. One other thing I would like to point out here: You said that paper tuning is sufficient and accomplishes the goal of small groups and I agree. But you also said something like "based on my experience, I will know what to do to change my load". My point is that without that experience of "knowing what to do", a beginner (like the original poster) might be better served working on the load "through" the chronograph. But again, if he knows his distance and has excellent conditions, he can paper tune and solve his problem too. I use a chronograph because my clients are wanting as much of their barrel life as possible left after I develop a load and I live out west where the spaces are wide open and winds are fierce. A calm day out here is rare and most of our shooting ranges are in the mouths of big canyons so excellent conditions to tune in at 1k are almost non-existant. With the help of a chrono, I can isolate the low sd loads and see how accurate they are at close to mid range. Then, I test them at long range and when the conditions don't cooperate, I can use my experience to seperate the natural dispersion of the load from the conditions and determine if the load is good. If the group is satisfactory in the conditions and the chrono told me previously that the sd's were good, then I know I'm on track and the rifle goes back to the client. Make sense? [/QUOTE]
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