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<blockquote data-quote="Remmy700" data-source="post: 1506330" data-attributes="member: 36564"><p>Welcome to the forum brother and great question. You are going to get a few different views on this question. Me personally I don't care if its a hunting rifle or a match ELR rifle I treat them both as one with exception of coarse to style of bullet I am using. If I get a 1/4 moa group with 10 SD and a 1/2 moa group with a 2 SD I am taking that 1/2 moa load all day. Most of the time with few exceptions that load will hold that 1/2 moa to distance where that 10 SD will start to open up. Sometimes the stars line up and you get a 1/4 moa group with low SD also which sometimes does happen also. I try to set my minimum to SD of 6 or less mainly focusing to attain 4 or less but again depends on the groups the gun is laying down. Not sure what your skill level is but most of the time average shooters will never even notice the difference of a 20 SD load vs a 2 SD load just because of inexperience and flaws in shooting mechanics. I have personally did load work just to see what a 20 SD load vs 5 SD load does at 1K different. You can definitely see that vertical stringing due to changes in velocity whereas with the low SD the only stringing I noticed was horizontal due to slight wind changes without compensation. I will say to attain those low consistent SD your reloading game has to be on point and attention to detail of all the little things in brass consistency, charge weights etc. has to be really cared for. Will be interested to see what some of the others say. Again welcome to the forum! Dan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Remmy700, post: 1506330, member: 36564"] Welcome to the forum brother and great question. You are going to get a few different views on this question. Me personally I don't care if its a hunting rifle or a match ELR rifle I treat them both as one with exception of coarse to style of bullet I am using. If I get a 1/4 moa group with 10 SD and a 1/2 moa group with a 2 SD I am taking that 1/2 moa load all day. Most of the time with few exceptions that load will hold that 1/2 moa to distance where that 10 SD will start to open up. Sometimes the stars line up and you get a 1/4 moa group with low SD also which sometimes does happen also. I try to set my minimum to SD of 6 or less mainly focusing to attain 4 or less but again depends on the groups the gun is laying down. Not sure what your skill level is but most of the time average shooters will never even notice the difference of a 20 SD load vs a 2 SD load just because of inexperience and flaws in shooting mechanics. I have personally did load work just to see what a 20 SD load vs 5 SD load does at 1K different. You can definitely see that vertical stringing due to changes in velocity whereas with the low SD the only stringing I noticed was horizontal due to slight wind changes without compensation. I will say to attain those low consistent SD your reloading game has to be on point and attention to detail of all the little things in brass consistency, charge weights etc. has to be really cared for. Will be interested to see what some of the others say. Again welcome to the forum! Dan [/QUOTE]
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