Thread: Seating Depth Test. Waste of Time?

Originally Posted by Ground Control

If I was wanting to win a Benchrest match either local or World championship, I’d be seriously listening to the guys who have won it before.

If I wanted to learn better breathing, wind calls and trigger control I'd seriosly listen to what they have to say.

I'm skeptical to believe that seating depth has much to do with it rather than the overall utmost care for every aspect of a handload. F class shooting is so deep into the weeds of trying to squeeze out minute gains that beyond being a skilled shooter with a quality rifle, fiddling with loads is just a hobby with diminishing returns.

Back on subject though.
It still remains as fact, and has been proven time and again, that most of the testing done in regard to hand loading is done with group sizes that are functionally too small to mean anything. A sample size of three is meaningless. A sample size of five is barely large enough to show the accuracy of a load. Repeated sample sizes of five collated together? That's just averaging small sample sizes.

Bigger sample sizes, bigger groups, confirm two things: We are wasting our time tinkering and probably don't shoot as accurately as we think. Either a rifle and load shoots accurately or it doesn't. Change the powder, change the bullet, or find your accuracy problems elsewhere.