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Velocity spread issues. Bartlein barrel
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<blockquote data-quote="DogDown1994" data-source="post: 1084391" data-attributes="member: 88376"><p>Hello everyone. Sorry it took so long for me to return, truck broke down and havnt had much time for anything. Anyways i coulndnt afford a new chrony for the time being butttt after taking your advice and shooting groups at 400 yards in the first place rather than 100 yards, i found that my current loads (300smk&retumbo) were inneficient, finaly i wised up and went with a 300 berger otm and some h1000 seated at multiple lengths, left the chrony at home and now consistently shoot 3 inch or less 5 shot groups @400. My best group was .66 moa and .74 is average. Generaly 4 of the shots being .5 moa or less then the guy behind the trigger pulls one, mabye after more work i can tighten them even more. BUTTTT what is odd to me is that the rounds loaded closest to the lands actualy shot the worst. (COAL to lands with that bullet is actualy 3.895). After backing them up multiple times im actualy set way back to BERGERS RECCOMENDED COAL of 3.681. Sounds crazy to me that that bullet likes to jump over 2/10ths of an inch but its workin for me. I shot my 18"unpainted gong at 1000 yards with 5 left over rounds i had that day and hit every shot. Soon i will paint the target and get a group size for 1000 then report back. THANK YOU for the advice everyone. You can imagine its hard for a 20 year old kid to obtain any information about reloading when most kids my age are either on their x box or arnt even interested in firearms that arnt AR's. Thanks again. Any other tips are also appreciated</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DogDown1994, post: 1084391, member: 88376"] Hello everyone. Sorry it took so long for me to return, truck broke down and havnt had much time for anything. Anyways i coulndnt afford a new chrony for the time being butttt after taking your advice and shooting groups at 400 yards in the first place rather than 100 yards, i found that my current loads (300smk&retumbo) were inneficient, finaly i wised up and went with a 300 berger otm and some h1000 seated at multiple lengths, left the chrony at home and now consistently shoot 3 inch or less 5 shot groups @400. My best group was .66 moa and .74 is average. Generaly 4 of the shots being .5 moa or less then the guy behind the trigger pulls one, mabye after more work i can tighten them even more. BUTTTT what is odd to me is that the rounds loaded closest to the lands actualy shot the worst. (COAL to lands with that bullet is actualy 3.895). After backing them up multiple times im actualy set way back to BERGERS RECCOMENDED COAL of 3.681. Sounds crazy to me that that bullet likes to jump over 2/10ths of an inch but its workin for me. I shot my 18"unpainted gong at 1000 yards with 5 left over rounds i had that day and hit every shot. Soon i will paint the target and get a group size for 1000 then report back. THANK YOU for the advice everyone. You can imagine its hard for a 20 year old kid to obtain any information about reloading when most kids my age are either on their x box or arnt even interested in firearms that arnt AR's. Thanks again. Any other tips are also appreciated [/QUOTE]
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