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<blockquote data-quote="RegionRat" data-source="post: 2741071" data-attributes="member: 57231">Some good points in this post.You have started gaining the experience to know how to evaluate this bullet against the background of what this system does with better ones.You also realize that there is a trade-off between the cost of those better ones versus the trigger time you get from lower-performing and less costly ones. There is a value to troubleshooting a particular barrel with a &quot;known good recipe&quot;. It can help eliminate you or the gun on a given day. By the same token, it can stop you in your tracks and force you to troubleshoot the barrel or gun before wasting more ammo.Go ahead and spend some time with exploring the effects of tuning parameters like seating depths, but be honest with yourself and be prepared to spend enough shots to convince yourself. Consider this same exercise with the 175 SMK if you want to see how this gun does or does not respond to seating depth changes and different bullet designs.Learning the ropes of internal ballistics using an affordable standard match gun is valuable when it comes time to develop a load for a carry gun. I say this because only some of the system&#039;s modes respond to load tuning, and some will suck no matter what we do. Once we learn this with a heavy section match barrel and with good match bullets, we transition you to a carry barrel (sporter) with hunting bullets and school starts all over again because there are now modes that can respond to load tuning in an amplified way compared to a match gun, but you have also learned that some of the adjustment knobs have no real effect. Some bullets and guns will never shoot small.The difference in methodical learning with heavy match barrels and sporter barrels, is you learn to abandon a bad bullet (or any component) much sooner.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RegionRat, post: 2741071, member: 57231"] Some good points in this post. You have started gaining the experience to know how to evaluate this bullet against the background of what this system does with better ones. You also realize that there is a trade-off between the cost of those better ones versus the trigger time you get from lower-performing and less costly ones. There is a value to troubleshooting a particular barrel with a "known good recipe". It can help eliminate you or the gun on a given day. By the same token, it can stop you in your tracks and force you to troubleshoot the barrel or gun before wasting more ammo. Go ahead and spend some time with exploring the effects of tuning parameters like seating depths, but be honest with yourself and be prepared to spend enough shots to convince yourself. Consider this same exercise with the 175 SMK if you want to see how this gun does or does not respond to seating depth changes and different bullet designs. Learning the ropes of internal ballistics using an affordable standard match gun is valuable when it comes time to develop a load for a carry gun. I say this because only some of the system's modes respond to load tuning, and some will suck no matter what we do. Once we learn this with a heavy section match barrel and with good match bullets, we transition you to a carry barrel (sporter) with hunting bullets and school starts all over again because there are now modes that can respond to load tuning in an amplified way compared to a match gun, but you have also learned that some of the adjustment knobs have no real effect. Some bullets and guns will never shoot small. The difference in methodical learning with heavy match barrels and sporter barrels, is you learn to abandon a bad bullet (or any component) much sooner. [/QUOTE]

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