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Replicating factory ammo performance
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<blockquote data-quote="J-B welder" data-source="post: 2020097" data-attributes="member: 115997"><p>Well thanks for the warm welcome!</p><p></p><p>For me, this is about needing to shoot more to become a better shot and more ethical hunter, not about making clovers on paper off the bench. If I'm practicing from shooting sticks or off my knee, the resulting groups are a better diagnostic tool for assessing my need to practice if I know the spread is my fault and not the gun's.</p><p></p><p>So yes, I want to find an accurate load, but an extra eighth-inch reduction in group size isn't critical for me. But it is easy to see how someone could get wrapped up in trying keep improving their recipes just that little bit more. (I do have to come clean here, though: I already went back online and saw some TTSX 80 gr bullets available, so I bought a box and a pound of StaBALL 6.5. I think I might be a high risk reloading addict candidate.)</p><p></p><p>I have a question regarding neck vs. full-length re-sizing. Let's say my cases go five reloads before showing chambering stiffness. If I could get someone I know who reloads to full-length re-size them, will they likely last another five neck re-sizes, or is metal fatigue going to have enough effect that they'll only be good for three or four? I know cases don't last forever.</p><p></p><p>Update on my Sierra loads: the next five I loaded up shot a lot worse than the initial three. I'm chalking it up to a different, less stable rest and me not taking as much time with each shot. The only difference I can think of between the two batches was that I crimped the first ones and not the second bunch. From what I've read so far, there are differing opinions on how much difference that should make. I wasn't whacking them very hard, so I don't think I really crimped them much. I'll load another five to double check, and maybe bracket them with a group each at 42.3 and 42.7 grains of powder.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="J-B welder, post: 2020097, member: 115997"] Well thanks for the warm welcome! For me, this is about needing to shoot more to become a better shot and more ethical hunter, not about making clovers on paper off the bench. If I'm practicing from shooting sticks or off my knee, the resulting groups are a better diagnostic tool for assessing my need to practice if I know the spread is my fault and not the gun's. So yes, I want to find an accurate load, but an extra eighth-inch reduction in group size isn't critical for me. But it is easy to see how someone could get wrapped up in trying keep improving their recipes just that little bit more. (I do have to come clean here, though: I already went back online and saw some TTSX 80 gr bullets available, so I bought a box and a pound of StaBALL 6.5. I think I might be a high risk reloading addict candidate.) I have a question regarding neck vs. full-length re-sizing. Let's say my cases go five reloads before showing chambering stiffness. If I could get someone I know who reloads to full-length re-size them, will they likely last another five neck re-sizes, or is metal fatigue going to have enough effect that they'll only be good for three or four? I know cases don't last forever. Update on my Sierra loads: the next five I loaded up shot a lot worse than the initial three. I'm chalking it up to a different, less stable rest and me not taking as much time with each shot. The only difference I can think of between the two batches was that I crimped the first ones and not the second bunch. From what I've read so far, there are differing opinions on how much difference that should make. I wasn't whacking them very hard, so I don't think I really crimped them much. I'll load another five to double check, and maybe bracket them with a group each at 42.3 and 42.7 grains of powder. [/QUOTE]
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