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Reloading
Reloading for accuracy (hunting only)
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<blockquote data-quote="Bigeclipse" data-source="post: 991745" data-attributes="member: 52437"><p>Hey all you reloaders out there. I wanted to come here with a kind of weird question. I know EVERYTHING in reloading can effect accuracy but if you had to rank the following for importance how would you do it...I think this could be an interesting thread and hopefully I include everything in the list below:</p><p> </p><p>1. Powder charge accuracy (how close do you really need to be)</p><p>2. Bullet (do you weigh all your bullets and check ogive lengths and such)</p><p>3. Dies (brand types)...are high end expensive ones needed?</p><p>4. Bullet comparators and other tools for bullet seating</p><p>5. Case preparation... Now for this one, we all do some sort of preparation but how extreme is needed to obtain great hunting accuracy but not competition accuracy. For example...tumbling/ultrasonic cleaning, resizing, trimming length of cases to be identical within .002 of each other, primer pocket depth reaming, flashhole deburring...etc what is really needed to try and achieve say .5-.75MOA accuracy from a rifle that will do it with the right load. </p><p> </p><p>anything else I missed...again, I know for everyone this can be a different story (some people want all the accuracy they can get and do not care the time it takes or money, others are only shooting 200-300 yards so are happy with 1.5 MOA) but if you were trying to work a load for a hunting rifle out to medium distances such as 500 yards (where .5-.75 MOA accuracy is desired)...what would be your process for working those loads?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bigeclipse, post: 991745, member: 52437"] Hey all you reloaders out there. I wanted to come here with a kind of weird question. I know EVERYTHING in reloading can effect accuracy but if you had to rank the following for importance how would you do it...I think this could be an interesting thread and hopefully I include everything in the list below: 1. Powder charge accuracy (how close do you really need to be) 2. Bullet (do you weigh all your bullets and check ogive lengths and such) 3. Dies (brand types)...are high end expensive ones needed? 4. Bullet comparators and other tools for bullet seating 5. Case preparation... Now for this one, we all do some sort of preparation but how extreme is needed to obtain great hunting accuracy but not competition accuracy. For example...tumbling/ultrasonic cleaning, resizing, trimming length of cases to be identical within .002 of each other, primer pocket depth reaming, flashhole deburring...etc what is really needed to try and achieve say .5-.75MOA accuracy from a rifle that will do it with the right load. anything else I missed...again, I know for everyone this can be a different story (some people want all the accuracy they can get and do not care the time it takes or money, others are only shooting 200-300 yards so are happy with 1.5 MOA) but if you were trying to work a load for a hunting rifle out to medium distances such as 500 yards (where .5-.75 MOA accuracy is desired)...what would be your process for working those loads? [/QUOTE]
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