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Reloading
Reloading for accuracy (hunting only)
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<blockquote data-quote="dkhunt14" data-source="post: 1000158" data-attributes="member: 14053"><p>I start with the bullets in 10. Most guns shoot at their best right there and I only have one way to go to change. I take one case and keep reloading it and go up in powder charge to find the max. This way I only ruin one case. The reason is you don't want load at or over max. It will just give you trouble by sticky bolt and trash your brass. Most guns shoot at there best right near max because when pressure is up the powder burns cleaner. The VLD bullet loves it in the rifling. The BT and Hybrid sometimes like a jump. I do all my testing at 400 or 1000 because you need to see vertical and a lot of these bullets don't show much at closer distances. 95 percent of my guns shoot best at close to max charges and in the rifling 10 thousandths. I shoot almost all VLD's though. Then I load up 3 and test. The reason I use 3 is because if it won't shoot 3 there it won't shoot 5 any smaller. Then I will load 3 at touch. Then I will load 3 at 30 off. Then I will load 3 at 80 off. The gun will show you what it likes. This is about about 16 rounds and one of them will shoot better. Then I will take the better one and tweak the powder. First I research and find a powder that works well in my case. There is always one or two powders that really perform. Example is H4350 gives great accuracy in a 300 WSM and Varget shoots great in a Dasher. I would talk to other shooters and match shooters or google loads for my cartridge and read all I can. Matt</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dkhunt14, post: 1000158, member: 14053"] I start with the bullets in 10. Most guns shoot at their best right there and I only have one way to go to change. I take one case and keep reloading it and go up in powder charge to find the max. This way I only ruin one case. The reason is you don't want load at or over max. It will just give you trouble by sticky bolt and trash your brass. Most guns shoot at there best right near max because when pressure is up the powder burns cleaner. The VLD bullet loves it in the rifling. The BT and Hybrid sometimes like a jump. I do all my testing at 400 or 1000 because you need to see vertical and a lot of these bullets don't show much at closer distances. 95 percent of my guns shoot best at close to max charges and in the rifling 10 thousandths. I shoot almost all VLD's though. Then I load up 3 and test. The reason I use 3 is because if it won't shoot 3 there it won't shoot 5 any smaller. Then I will load 3 at touch. Then I will load 3 at 30 off. Then I will load 3 at 80 off. The gun will show you what it likes. This is about about 16 rounds and one of them will shoot better. Then I will take the better one and tweak the powder. First I research and find a powder that works well in my case. There is always one or two powders that really perform. Example is H4350 gives great accuracy in a 300 WSM and Varget shoots great in a Dasher. I would talk to other shooters and match shooters or google loads for my cartridge and read all I can. Matt [/QUOTE]
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