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Reloading
Not happy with 156 EOL
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<blockquote data-quote="azsugarbear" data-source="post: 1757159" data-attributes="member: 4809"><p>It seems a thread like this comes up every few years. Given enough time and circumstances nearly every bullet out there will fail to perform as advertised. Somebody will report lousy velocities or es numbers for a certain powder. A specific model scope will fail to track, or a specific model of a new rifle will fail to group no matter what the shooter does. I refer to these sorts of things as "gremlins in the system". It's usually something that cannot be explained - it just happens. </p><p></p><p>A good gunsmith can build a half MOA rifle most the time. But every once in a while, he will put together a rifle that shoots sub-quarter MOA all day long. He built that rifle just the same as the others. It just went together perfectly. He will also build a rifle every now and then that will fail to meet his standards. Just gremlins in the system.</p><p></p><p>We tend to hear more about things when they go wrong, than when they go right. Having things perform as expected is fast becoming the new norm in the golden age of LR shooting. When I hear things like what the OP reported, I find it interesting and then file it away. If I hear several more hunters experiencing the same thing, I will take notice, sit up and then begin to ask questions. Just saying that it is hard to draw any type of conclusion or get too excited from a single experience.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="azsugarbear, post: 1757159, member: 4809"] It seems a thread like this comes up every few years. Given enough time and circumstances nearly every bullet out there will fail to perform as advertised. Somebody will report lousy velocities or es numbers for a certain powder. A specific model scope will fail to track, or a specific model of a new rifle will fail to group no matter what the shooter does. I refer to these sorts of things as "gremlins in the system". It's usually something that cannot be explained - it just happens. A good gunsmith can build a half MOA rifle most the time. But every once in a while, he will put together a rifle that shoots sub-quarter MOA all day long. He built that rifle just the same as the others. It just went together perfectly. He will also build a rifle every now and then that will fail to meet his standards. Just gremlins in the system. We tend to hear more about things when they go wrong, than when they go right. Having things perform as expected is fast becoming the new norm in the golden age of LR shooting. When I hear things like what the OP reported, I find it interesting and then file it away. If I hear several more hunters experiencing the same thing, I will take notice, sit up and then begin to ask questions. Just saying that it is hard to draw any type of conclusion or get too excited from a single experience. [/QUOTE]
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