Thread: The Howikka Test Bed

Originally Posted by dannyb

I'm curious, what was the fix/issue ?

It will be revealed eventually once I'm back from hunting.

Originally Posted by Stocky

The 15 and 5 shots previous shots of this load were all in the same cone of fire and once combined had a mean radius of about 0.128mil. The 15 shot groups had a particularly tight cluster giving it very good mean radius.

The mean radius isn't accurate for this group as it needs accurate shot placements. Probably not terribly far off but maybe not as close as suggested. Awfully hard to place shots in the group analysis accurately when it's just a hole. Its possible to shoot a 0.5mil group with a 0.25mil mean radius (if you shot all of thing in a perfect circle). I've just evenly spread the shots in the hole. In practice as it was being shot it started as a much smaller cluster. I will load some more of the eld loads to confirm once I'm back. There was also a pretty good crosswind rolling through tonight, hard to quantify as the range is semi sheltered but at target the other targets stapled up where getting blown off. Even at 106yards a 1-2m/s wind difference would be up to 0.1mils.

It doesn't prove anything definitively and shows one of the downsides of larger sample sizes. I didn't have good data before but it's shot a box of Speer GD into about 1.8moa which was a 2.5moa 3 shot group when i used it as a rough sighter group the first time I mounted a scope on the rifle.

Again figured I would admit i found something that slightly concerned me in the rifle setup.

Yeah mean radius is a much better metric than group extreme spread but you do have to measure it accurately. Isn't it interesting. I'm drawing no conclusions of any kind

Originally Posted by Stocky

It will be revealed eventually once I'm back from hunting.

Top secret eh ?

More like you don't pull apart a zeroed rifle you're gonna hunt with for the sake of a few pictures . . .

Originally Posted by Tentman

More like you don't pull apart a zeroed rifle you're gonna hunt with for the sake of a few pictures . . .

Likely being pulled apart already if he’s fixed the issue

Whats the latest here @Stocky ?

Been hunting and need to shoot some targets to confirm if any changes occurred. Its also had a drop straight onto concrete which has meant a scope swap. Figured no point posting until I have data.

It did kill a good stag at 240m. Will add that here too when I do the next update. May run the brass through it once more Before trying another barrel I have 3x here.