I had bookmarked a thread on AccurateShooter years ago just for reference and it's relevant to this discussion as it contains the best quote on "nodes" I have seen "A node is a mythical place,...
Liked On: 25-10-2024, 07:46 AM
Ive mucked around with neck sizing but for hunting the security of knowing every round will fit the chamber is reassuring. My load development has always been random and unsophisticated. Work...
Liked On: 25-10-2024, 07:46 AM
They'll be right
Liked On: 25-10-2024, 07:46 AM
It suffers the same problem that I have demonstrated with selecting "good" loads based on 3 shot groups, or "good" loads based on "flat spots in velocity" from ladders as shown in the linked article...
Liked On: 25-10-2024, 07:45 AM
I'm open to the idea that they're real. I just haven't seen convincing proof that anyone can develop loads that are actually meaningfully different with the same powder, brass, bullet and in a...
Liked On: 25-10-2024, 07:41 AM
Greetings, Nodes are only one of the handloading myths that need to be put out to pasture. GPM.
Liked On: 25-10-2024, 07:40 AM
https://www.outdoorlife.com/guns/rifle-nodes/ For those especially too busy to watch Hornardy podcast #50 or requiring further evidence to lose an entrenched mindset!
Liked On: 25-10-2024, 07:39 AM
Try shooting lead free air rifles pellets. Virtually no accuracy at all! Fast yes... but that's all
Liked On: 23-10-2024, 10:03 PM
You more or less covered what I was going to say. My feeling is that while lead in hunted animals poses a risk, the severity of the risk and the likelihood of it significantly impacting anyone is...
Liked On: 23-10-2024, 10:03 PM
I contributed minced deer and goat meat to one of these studies some time ago. Rib and shoulder meat mostly and the results supposedly showed low Pb levels, similar to control/background levels. I’m...
Liked On: 23-10-2024, 10:02 PM
Slightly different scenario to hunting there. Indoor target shooting in a confined space somewhat different to shooting outdoors. The cynic in me says we have to be aware that everything we do these...
Liked On: 23-10-2024, 10:02 PM
Bits of lead eating or swallowed ala kids carrying shotgun pellets in mouth and swallowing the odd one or a stray pellet from a duck will do bugger all. Lead is relatively inert. Breathe it in as...
Liked On: 23-10-2024, 10:00 PM
Back in the days when meat was worth good coin you only ever took head and neck shots with the trebbly. Chop the head and neck off and job done.
Liked On: 23-10-2024, 09:59 PM
Grandfather died this week top man, proper kiwi bloke Shepard light house keeper ranger prison officer then retired . I owe him a lot because the outdoors skipped a generation but he made sure he...
Liked On: 23-10-2024, 06:21 PM
Ouch. 74 Targex at 270 yds. 261561 261562
Liked On: 23-10-2024, 06:21 PM