Thread: Keeping it Simple for New Handloaders

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Yea but you're feeding yourself bullshit basically... There's definately a sweet spot where you're gonna see good performance but it's exactly that, a sweet spot, and it's larger than your ability to shoot is able to measure. I challenge you to load up several different seating depths, load 6 of each, and then go and shoot two 3 shot groups with each of them, I guarantee that there will be variation between your two groups of the same seating depth, in some cases this variation will be greater than the variation between loads of different depths. Consistency is the key here. I have a load that can shoot under 1/4 inch, it will be more than enough for all the hunting that I ever want to do, out to further than I will ever shoot an animal, but will it shoot that every single time? Nope. Why? Because there's a big floppy piece of meat and bone with a heartbeat hanging onto the trigger which will make more of a difference in consistency than anything else.

You may call it bullshit, you may be right.....but I'll bet if you can find a consistent speed node that doesn't shoot well in your rifle, you could tune it by fiddling with seating depth.
Granted it might take a while at 3 thou increments but I am picking you could get it shooting better.
Anyway the original point of this thread was about keeping it simple for beginers so I guess maybe I got off track
No matter what you do and how you do it, if your getting results and doing it safely then do what works for you