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Very first ladder test, take a look.
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<blockquote data-quote="royinidaho" data-source="post: 94302" data-attributes="member: 2011"><p>Fellas,</p><p></p><p>RE: OCW method. How are the first 3 powder weights determined?</p><p></p><p>Before the ladder test, I'd just grab the book and select the highest velocity load (I'm a velocity hawg) that seemed reasonable, back off a few percent and load 5 and go to shootin.</p><p></p><p>With the ladder test I did on the 375 I found a "node" hunted and pecked around it to get the hunting load I was going to use. The 375 was a bad one to judge things as it's maximum range is 300 yds and about anything stuck in it shoots the same.</p><p></p><p>With my LRH rifle, 338 Win, I haven't done a latter test or any other 'test' whatever. Got to the 75gr of RL 22 and the Sierra 250 GameKing and Wildcat RBBTs. Needless to say I have shot at a bunch of Sierras and 100 WCs (have gone through 3 pounds of power. Not all was accuracy tuning. Much was recoil reduction, ya know, change the stock, test results. I have it where I can shoot many prone rounds with out any adverse bodily harm.</p><p></p><p>However, all I have is a rifle I can comfortably shoot on the "tight rope" mentioned above. </p><p></p><p>So what I'm gonna do is run the ladder test, then instead of huntin' and pecking around a node, I'll do the OCW process.</p><p></p><p>I'll keep copius notes and hope that I can learn enough to be able to be more conversant on the subject. But mainly get to the point where I load a 100 cartridges and don't reload any more until I shoot 100 elk /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif</p><p></p><p>yea, right!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="royinidaho, post: 94302, member: 2011"] Fellas, RE: OCW method. How are the first 3 powder weights determined? Before the ladder test, I'd just grab the book and select the highest velocity load (I'm a velocity hawg) that seemed reasonable, back off a few percent and load 5 and go to shootin. With the ladder test I did on the 375 I found a "node" hunted and pecked around it to get the hunting load I was going to use. The 375 was a bad one to judge things as it's maximum range is 300 yds and about anything stuck in it shoots the same. With my LRH rifle, 338 Win, I haven't done a latter test or any other 'test' whatever. Got to the 75gr of RL 22 and the Sierra 250 GameKing and Wildcat RBBTs. Needless to say I have shot at a bunch of Sierras and 100 WCs (have gone through 3 pounds of power. Not all was accuracy tuning. Much was recoil reduction, ya know, change the stock, test results. I have it where I can shoot many prone rounds with out any adverse bodily harm. However, all I have is a rifle I can comfortably shoot on the "tight rope" mentioned above. So what I'm gonna do is run the ladder test, then instead of huntin' and pecking around a node, I'll do the OCW process. I'll keep copius notes and hope that I can learn enough to be able to be more conversant on the subject. But mainly get to the point where I load a 100 cartridges and don't reload any more until I shoot 100 elk [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img] yea, right! [/QUOTE]
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