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<blockquote data-quote="kcebcj" data-source="post: 622343" data-attributes="member: 10391"><p>It's been my experience mainly with 30 cal bullets that you can work with flat based bullets at a 100 yards and have them stay fairly accurate on out. With boat tails bullets I will shoot a group of 5 at 100 yards once the rifle is sighted then move out to my 335 yard target to finish the work. I usually see a measured impact difference between 100 and 335 yards with the boat tails but not much with the flat based bullets.</p><p> </p><p> There is a point where the bullet settles down (goes to sleep) and when working up a load you have to be beyond that point to read what's going on accurately. No load workup should be done at less than 100 yards but I don't know that for sure with a flat based bullet. Boat tails need to be beyond 200 yards in my opinion for final tuning.</p><p> </p><p> Run a search in the forum and learn how to perform a ladder test used for finding a sweet spot for a particular powder with a particular bullet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kcebcj, post: 622343, member: 10391"] It's been my experience mainly with 30 cal bullets that you can work with flat based bullets at a 100 yards and have them stay fairly accurate on out. With boat tails bullets I will shoot a group of 5 at 100 yards once the rifle is sighted then move out to my 335 yard target to finish the work. I usually see a measured impact difference between 100 and 335 yards with the boat tails but not much with the flat based bullets. There is a point where the bullet settles down (goes to sleep) and when working up a load you have to be beyond that point to read what's going on accurately. No load workup should be done at less than 100 yards but I don't know that for sure with a flat based bullet. Boat tails need to be beyond 200 yards in my opinion for final tuning. Run a search in the forum and learn how to perform a ladder test used for finding a sweet spot for a particular powder with a particular bullet. [/QUOTE]
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