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<blockquote data-quote="TRG65" data-source="post: 1670817" data-attributes="member: 103919"><p>The load work-up was with a different rifle than the 6.5x47. All three of the 6.5x47 loads were the same. It is a good load. The difference was 3 good shots and then I wouldn't exhale completely, or I had a finger that was pushing on the stock instead of my rear bag. The rifle and load isn't what needs the work. The rifle is only as good as the system. Even in very controlled prone it is easy to introduce disturbances. That's magnified when you're shooting from a hasty position or tripod. A 1/4 moa gun and load can still shoot 2 moa if you don't understand and know the best ways to control the wobble zone or don't have enough practice with that platform. I've been shooting and dry firing my 6.5 addiction almost exclusively. I shot my current load 3 rounds to warm up. Good group but didn't measure. Then I shot a bunch of RL26 test loads with it. Then came back and shot 2 more rounds into the first 3. That group measured a smidge over .5". Then I switched to my 6.5x47. The addiction is on a Sako Trg. The x47 is a Ruger RPR. They both can shoot, but a lack of practice and familiarity with that rifle turned a sub 1/2 gun/load to moa+ from prone. If a WEZ analysis is done by Litz all other conditions being the same what's the percentage difference in hit probability between a 1/2 and a 1/4 or 1/3. I think that makes less of a change than missing a wind call by a few mph and it doesn't matter at all if you can't hold on the target or time a wobble in a hasty position.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TRG65, post: 1670817, member: 103919"] The load work-up was with a different rifle than the 6.5x47. All three of the 6.5x47 loads were the same. It is a good load. The difference was 3 good shots and then I wouldn’t exhale completely, or I had a finger that was pushing on the stock instead of my rear bag. The rifle and load isn’t what needs the work. The rifle is only as good as the system. Even in very controlled prone it is easy to introduce disturbances. That’s magnified when you’re shooting from a hasty position or tripod. A 1/4 moa gun and load can still shoot 2 moa if you don’t understand and know the best ways to control the wobble zone or don’t have enough practice with that platform. I’ve been shooting and dry firing my 6.5 addiction almost exclusively. I shot my current load 3 rounds to warm up. Good group but didn’t measure. Then I shot a bunch of RL26 test loads with it. Then came back and shot 2 more rounds into the first 3. That group measured a smidge over .5”. Then I switched to my 6.5x47. The addiction is on a Sako Trg. The x47 is a Ruger RPR. They both can shoot, but a lack of practice and familiarity with that rifle turned a sub 1/2 gun/load to moa+ from prone. If a WEZ analysis is done by Litz all other conditions being the same what’s the percentage difference in hit probability between a 1/2 and a 1/4 or 1/3. I think that makes less of a change than missing a wind call by a few mph and it doesn’t matter at all if you can’t hold on the target or time a wobble in a hasty position. [/QUOTE]
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