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Reloading
Very first ladder test, take a look.
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<blockquote data-quote="royinidaho" data-source="post: 94178" data-attributes="member: 2011"><p>[ QUOTE ]</p><p>Roy,</p><p></p><p>I say this because if you do alter the powder charge to tighten a proven OCW load, you'll move to the edge of the "sweet spot" and be forever "walking the tightrope" to accuracy.</p><p></p><p>[/ QUOTE ]</p><p></p><p>Dan,</p><p></p><p>I appreciate your comprehensive response.</p><p></p><p>I snipped in the quote what 'rang a bell' as I studied your response. You never know when you're gonna strike a chord!</p><p></p><p>"walking the tightrope" is OK but I fall off way too often. What I mean is that accuracy will be steady state for a period of time, then flat fall apart. 1/4 MOA shooting jumps to 1.5 MOA then I'm <img src="http://www.huntingpictures.net/data/529/332scratch.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> After scratching the knoggin a bit I do some trouble shooting and sooner than later I end up back where I was which is with the same exact load and great accuracy.</p><p></p><p>It may be that I have the load tuned to exactly for a certain set of environmental conditions, as in the day that I worked it up. Change the day, change the conditions, off the tight rope ya fall....</p><p></p><p>Am visiting family in Seattle this weekend but will do your process in a week or so. I'll learn a bit more than I do now.</p><p></p><p>I wonder if OCW and OCD are compatible /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif</p><p></p><p>Thanks for the discussion.</p><p></p><p>Roy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="royinidaho, post: 94178, member: 2011"] [ QUOTE ] Roy, I say this because if you do alter the powder charge to tighten a proven OCW load, you'll move to the edge of the "sweet spot" and be forever "walking the tightrope" to accuracy. [/ QUOTE ] Dan, I appreciate your comprehensive response. I snipped in the quote what 'rang a bell' as I studied your response. You never know when you're gonna strike a chord! "walking the tightrope" is OK but I fall off way too often. What I mean is that accuracy will be steady state for a period of time, then flat fall apart. 1/4 MOA shooting jumps to 1.5 MOA then I'm [img]http://www.huntingpictures.net/data/529/332scratch.gif[/img] After scratching the knoggin a bit I do some trouble shooting and sooner than later I end up back where I was which is with the same exact load and great accuracy. It may be that I have the load tuned to exactly for a certain set of environmental conditions, as in the day that I worked it up. Change the day, change the conditions, off the tight rope ya fall.... Am visiting family in Seattle this weekend but will do your process in a week or so. I'll learn a bit more than I do now. I wonder if OCW and OCD are compatible [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Thanks for the discussion. Roy [/QUOTE]
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