entoptics
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Disclaimer. I'm an experienced reloader, and know all about the "every rifle/bullet/zebra is different". I also am not much of a believer in "nodes", at least in run of the mill rifles. That being said, I obviously recognize that some recipes shoot significantly better than others in a given rifle.
Anyway, curious about people's experience with the following...
If you get a particular load shooting well in your rifle, have you been able to reproduce the results by matching the velocity, despite switching components/recipe (assuming ES/SD, load density, or burn rate doesn't change drastically)?
For example (and why I'm asking), my 300WM got pretty settled in shooting a 208 ELDX at about 2900 fps using H1000, Fed 210M, and Norma Brass. I've pretty much shot up my brass, so I got a new stash of a Sig brass. It's drastically different in capacity (250 gr vs 215 gr), and as expected, my preliminary testing shows I need to back off my recipe a little to keep pressure/velocity in check. I've only shot a few thanks to 5 feet of snow this month, and accuracy seems fine still, but this lead me to the above question.
Have any of you been even more drastic than my situation? For instance, changing powder/primer/brass, but tuning to get the same velocity as a good shooting load, and having the new load perform well too?
Anyway, curious about people's experience with the following...
If you get a particular load shooting well in your rifle, have you been able to reproduce the results by matching the velocity, despite switching components/recipe (assuming ES/SD, load density, or burn rate doesn't change drastically)?
For example (and why I'm asking), my 300WM got pretty settled in shooting a 208 ELDX at about 2900 fps using H1000, Fed 210M, and Norma Brass. I've pretty much shot up my brass, so I got a new stash of a Sig brass. It's drastically different in capacity (250 gr vs 215 gr), and as expected, my preliminary testing shows I need to back off my recipe a little to keep pressure/velocity in check. I've only shot a few thanks to 5 feet of snow this month, and accuracy seems fine still, but this lead me to the above question.
Have any of you been even more drastic than my situation? For instance, changing powder/primer/brass, but tuning to get the same velocity as a good shooting load, and having the new load perform well too?