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Hey, Miller Outdoors- has it been your experience that the 185's out of a .308 winchester take a few hundred yards to go to sleep or settle in? Or do you consistantly see good accuracy closer than 250 yards? For the price, I can't justify continuing with my load with accuracy that won't...

I'm working with the 185 VLD's out of my rifle. Load is as follows: Norma fully prepped brass CCI BR2 primers VV N150 @ 42.6 grs = 2525 fps This combination will only do about 1 moa at 200 yards, even after all of my seating depth playing. Because of the theory about bullets going to sleep...

Well, let us know what happens when you work up a load for the bergers that you haven't tried yet. The only way to know if any particular brass/powder/primer/bullet combo will work in your rifle is to go through the whole load developement process and figure it out for yourself (experimenting...

Some people might go on about dropping a light powder charge in the case, topping it off with oatmeal, and then headed to the range to make a mess. *Whatever* Then there are others that take the opportunity to do some rough testing with several different: powders, charge weights, bullets...

Sounds like you have an idea of how this works, but check out Dan Newberry's page on Optimal Charge Weight (OCW) testing. It is a sound method of doing business and has never lead me astray. Something else I didn't see you mention is your cleaning-cycle; are you doing all of your load...

That's interesting. Can't say I've ever looked at the boltface of my rifle that carefully, other than to ensure it's clean from oil/grit/grime/etc... Thanks again EH

Hey, Mikecr- I can't say that I've heard of "wiping the case head." All of the other high-pressure-pucker-factor signs are familiar to me, though. Is this as though gasses are escaping rearward out the flash-hole and around the primer up? If this is the case would this brass need to be...

Now it really looks like you ought to be working at 200-300 yards! All that variation in charge weights and you're still looking at a group that's barely over 1 minute! Seems to me that you've got a great shooter that was meant for reaching out and printing small groups. Just out of...

Something I've tried with great success when running an OCW test is to actually measure out the group-centers of the various loads, poke a hole in the target, and then plot the individual points on a new target ( I call this the group-center-target). Rather than use identical points, mark each...

Thanks for a great answer, Michael. Of course each rifle and each load are different, but what kind of changes are you seeing with the bright, unfiltered sun at say a perpendicular to your line of sight to the target? (ex: .5moa, 1moa, etc...) EH

I've asked around about this before, but nobody seemed to know a reasonable answer to WHY lighting causes a change in poi. Any suggestions? Also, HOW does lighting change poi? EH

Just placed my order yesterday for a head-to-toe getup of M2D Camo. Has anybody tried this camo? How did it work out for you? Any fitting issues? Issues with the organization of pockets or whatever interfering with equipment like binoculars, slung rifles, etc...? From what I've read and...

Something you may wish to try is when determining a seating depth, do your testing at distances greater than 100 yards- preferably 200 or 300. The reason I say this is because of that theory we've all heard of about bullets settling-down during flight, or going to sleep. Something I found...

Good question. I live in Washington state and here it is not legal to bait bear or cougar, although scents are a different story I believe. Don't think honey-burns are legal either. Any scents, not baits, that work well out there? EH

Surely, I can't be the only person who's had to cut back. Last year I was shooting every weekend with both the .308 and .22lr, now it's one or the other every other weekend and only shoot 5 rounds from the .308 and about one box of match ammo through the .22. I've come to the realization...