The post whore thread.

eh, I was close.

Hitting lesson material hard tonight, got some other shit to take care of first.

Later homies.

Waving at OBC from highway. :)

Am passenger not texting while driving.

Lobbed from my electronic ball and chain

Got my rifle zeroed in 6 shots, then used another 14 to fine tune and think I got it dialed in. First time shooting prone, I think I like it! I meant to take a picture for you guys of my setup titled "A Little Monday Yoga", because yes, I used my wife's old yoga mat as a shooting mat and it worked great!

Top large dot is 50yds getting on paper and working down. Bottom left dot is the first group of "5", and I pulled the shot (said a naughty word immediately after pulling trigger and before checking) so I moved to the middle dot without shooting the fifth shot. On the bottom middle, it kept wandering down so I dialed up .2mil and then reset myself in my position. Bottom right dot is the final group of 5. I'd like to say I pulled/jerked the shot on the top edge, but I didn't. All in all, not bad and I'm pretty impressed with how this rifle shoots! It will definitely only get better as I become more used to shooting prone and get a lot more dry fire practice in to learn the trigger.

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Originally Posted by BuffCyclist

Yea, me too, at least to precision shooting/reloading. There is a lot of debate online whether Ladder test, OCW (optimal charge weight), shooting for groups, or using a chronograph to get single digit StdDev's is the most precise way of determining the best load data for a rifle. That's why I asked. I want to start testing loads for my rifle so I can start reloading at that charge to have ammo on hand, but wasn't sure which is the smarter way to go about picking that load.

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Shoot multiple rounds at each charge, but not all of a particular charge in a string. Keep the same POA for all shots. 200-300 is where you'll start to see some decent spreading, yet still be able to keep it on the broad side of a barn. The farther the better.

the hard part with this testing is spotting which hit comes from which load. The basic thought says that the higher the charge, the higher the impact on the target. That's difficult to do if you've got an SD of 40 and an ES of 70.

For what I'm trying to get done, I'm not concerned with 100 yard shots. I want to know how this ammo/gun combo does at distance.

Shoot one round from each charge weight, then repeat. Take note of where every round hit before you take the next shot.

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Originally Posted by TheBelly

Shoot multiple rounds at each charge, but not all of a particular charge in a string. Keep the same POA for all shots. 200-300 is where you'll start to see some decent spreading, yet still be able to keep it on the broad side of a barn. The farther the better.

the hard part with this testing is spotting which hit comes from which load. The basic thought says that the higher the charge, the higher the impact on the target. That's difficult to do if you've got an SD of 40 and an ES of 70.

For what I'm trying to get done, I'm not concerned with 100 yard shots. I want to know how this ammo/gun combo does at distance.

Shoot one round from each charge weight, then repeat. Take note of where every round hit before you take the next shot.

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What you described in the first 2 paragraphs was the Ladder test, but with more than 1 shot per charge, right? The OCW test is shooting 3 rounds (1 of bullet A at target 1, 1 of bullet B at target 2, 1 of bullet C at target 3, etc) at their own target and comparing the clusters of groupings.

I got my rifle zeroed today, so the next time I'm able to go (and spend more than at most an hour like today), I'll take my reloads and do the OCW test at 100yds, then when I find the nodes and develop more refined, will move that out to 200yds.

Oh, and any of you guys ever bake brownie cookies?

Wait a minute... I need to stop right there after "Any of you guys ever bake..." [ROFL1]

The recipe was on a box of Ghiradelli mix, my wife decided she only wanted to wait 10min for brownie cookies instead of 45min for the tray. They came out tasting exactly like brownies, except that every brownie cookie was an edge piece. Perfectly crispy, yet still with a gooey center. Delicious!!

omgurd!!!

dear wine out of a coors like can... you suck.

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