No, we're good there..but it brings up a thing I've noticed for years that still makes no sense to me. When shooting at a target angled away to the right from you it will hit right of its normal poa. Angled to the left, it will hit left of poa. Can't wrap my brain around why it does that.What targets are you shooting at? Stupid question and probably stupid suggestion but sometimes I just shoot at a target taped to a cardboard box or something. Is it at all possible your 300 yard target is moving around and your 400 isn't?
Again, very stupid suggestion I know…except I've done this…discovering that, even in a slight wind, it doesn't matter how steady I can hold IF THE DANG TARGET ISNT HOLDING STILL
Poor accuracy at 300y, great at 400
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I don't have alot of the ammo I plan on using on hand and it's a bit scarce so not that many rounds. I'm doing first shot, cold bore testing at each range 3 times. Groups are nice but realistically for hunting I need to know what the first shot is going to do.
I used to have loads of time for Reloading. Growing up sucks sometimes.
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I used to have loads of time for Reloading. Growing up sucks sometimes.
My experience of it has been that you can either have the time OR the money to do the things you want to do…but never BOTH!!!
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Hornady has a fantastic podcast regarding twist rates in rifle barrels. Highly recommend this podcast. In the podcast they mention bullet stability will INCREASE as it travels down range. I'm guessing this is what you are witnessing. The ELD bullets are very long and need fast twist barrels like the 7 PRC has. I suggest you go to a lighter bullet in the same make/model or try a more traditional bullet shape in that rifle. I'm guessing you'll have more consistent results at varying distances.
Also, stop trying to determine bullet drop without a chronograph. You're wasting your time. Output data is only as good as the inputted data.
Also, stop trying to determine bullet drop without a chronograph. You're wasting your time. Output data is only as good as the inputted data.
My first question is; what's are the targets that you're shooting at? Size, shape, etc.
Do you have an anti-cant level on your rifle?
There's a really long thread on this forum about this. I can find it but it might take me a while. I'm not sure what it's called.
Here's a short one.
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Do you have an anti-cant level on your rifle?
There's a really long thread on this forum about this. I can find it but it might take me a while. I'm not sure what it's called.
Here's a short one.
Better Groups At Distance
I have been searching for a rational reason that bullets wouldn't maintain a constant angular deviation between POA and POI as they travel down range. In other words, how could groups at say 600yds be smaller MOA than groups at 100yds? Initial, it doesn't make sense that a bullet could improve...
If he's done it 2 times in a row, 3 ought to occur.
I'm eagerly awaiting
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I'd do a tall target test on on the scope and check how well the parallax works. My 2 cents from the peanut gallery.
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Impossible if all other conditions remain the same. Wind is the most important variable
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A little confused. My impression from your first post was about precision (group size measured in MOA). Then in post 14, it seems to be about accuracy (point of impact vs point of aim).
If it's the latter, I agree that it's your scope. No need to use your hunting ammo to verify that with a tall target test using various applicable settings for the ranges you expect.
I know, typing hastily on my part causes confusion regularly lol.
I'm doing cold bore testing to see how close I can get to a bullseye at each range. Not only testing my rifle's ability to get them within the kill zone with plenty of wiggle room to spare, but also checking/ honing my ability to figure out where to aim and dial. You might say they do wind up being groups after its all said and done...but Im really shooting for score so to speak.
What i noticed after figuring out roughly where to aim with a ballistics app then verifying/ adjusting from there by actual real world testing is that at 300 yards, the variation from one bullet strike to the next (group size) was much bigger than at 400. Because of that, I could consistently get closer to my bulleye with each shot at 400 than 300 after i figured out where to aim, because it was shooting smaller groups at 400.
When i say i dont care about group size for hunting, what i mean is that what i really care about is how close i can consistently get to poi. You can have nice little .5 moa groups, but if those groups wander around the bullseye by a couple inches based on how you hold, temperature, or your mood .5 moa isnt really an accurate assessment of hunting accuracy.
The thing about this being a problem with my scope, is that it worked perfectly on my 308 2 weeks ago. Doesn't mean something couldnt have happened to it obviously and it's something I'll definitely check with handloads after hunting season.
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Shoot further and see if it falls apart. It could be barrel harmonics. Since you don't know the actual fps it follows that you don't know the ES/SD either. The "tune" so to speak may favor certain distances. It should fall apart at some point.
