Reloading according to yardage

[ShtrRdy]

It's possible your neighbor mentioned something else that you're leaving out. For example he uses the reticle to hold over on longer shots.

 

[dmj]

Hi all my name is Keith Fleming & live in N.H. and just started learning precision shooting with a Savage .22 mag. I am working my way up to larger calibers & reloading but for now My Savage with an Arken on top is working nicely! I am writing because as I was telling my my know-it-all ex Airforce guy neighbor about shooting he told me about "some expert shooter" he knows does his reloading so when he shoots he always aims at the bullseye , meaning he has loads that hit@ 100 up to 1000 depending on his powder ...." because he hates messing with his scope" This all sounded like a big load of " I know it all BS" but I figured I'd come here and ask if you guys have heard of this? Is it a reality? Sounds dangerous if the target is close enough! ....Thoughts?

Run. Don't pass goal just plain Run. As already suggested there may something in the info you were told that you missed. But with the info you have, Run.

 

[Snow leopard]

Yes , once again I spoke without picturing this fully! I was just trying to imagine the size of the shell to put a 30-06 bullet 1000yds down range with no drop! .....I didNOT say I shot with the guy , I said he told me this tale....and swears to it!

 

[LaHunter]

I recall a saying my jr high English teacher had on her classroom wall: "He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him. This may possibly apply to your neighbor

 

[Mikecr]

Perspective and likely misunderstanding.
It IS possible.
You could have a book max load zero'd at 1kyd, and then weaker loads that print at 750, 500, 250, or 100.
He would have to hold-off between these exact ranges.
Nothing about this would be easier or more accurate than adjusting a good scope.

 

[VarmintBob]

Since point of impact changes with atmospheric pressure which changes from one day to the next, it is impossible to even do what you ask for one range since you would have to have a different load for each barometric pressure reading.

 

[Veteran]

Maybe this guy was a loader on a Battleship. Shooting 16" guns and putting in powder according to the range of the target. The bags of powder (cylindrical bags). He could load his cartridges with "more or less" powder for the range he wanted.
From one to three Bags of gunpowder propellent (depending upon range) are raised from the magazine in a separate shaft and rolled onto the slide. A second set of three bags for a full charge total of 6 bags is loaded to the slide and rammed home. The amount of powder "Bags" and elevation of the barrel would help hit the target.
This guy that you are talking to -DON'T LISTEN TO A WORD HE SAYS. HE IS VERY DANGEROUS.

Yep, he could do it if the barrel on his rifle was a battle ship turret........
Just throw another bag of powder in the breach for 1000 yard shots.
Don't adjust that dang scope, just pitch in more coal and powder!

Don't work that way on a finite size thin walled beach in a rifle you can actually carry!

It would be interesting to know the psi rating on a battleship turret
breach? Wonder if its the same 65,000 psi rating of a rifle breach or if its so thick walled and so voluminous, it can withstand something higher?

 

[Veteran]

Perspective and likely misunderstanding.
It IS possible.
You could have a book max load zero'd at 1kyd, and then weaker loads that print at 750, 500, 250, or 100.
He would have to hold-off between these exact ranges.
Nothing about this would be easier or more accurate than adjusting a good scope.

But he says he aims straight at the bullseye every shot.......

 

[ARlife4me]

That guy must be a 'JENOUS'...

He's full of it, plain and simple. You can't magically defy physics with hand loads, and you can't simply load a round with a particular powder charge that gives you the MV needed to keep your scope zeroed at a particular distance lol.

You 2 say that, but why don't you think it's possible! I state this as I load a 264wm with 100 and 140gr and shoot out to 600 without adjusting scope (Leupold old school crosshair). Wind required a little adjusting, but elevation didn't. I really don't adjust optic for wind, only hold with no hold markings. Prairie dog plinking at its finest.

 

[xsn10s]

It's possible your neighbor mentioned something else that you're leaving out. For example he uses the reticle to hold over on longer shots.

It would have to be using a reticle or one of those "shoots like a laser" loads

 

[Petey308]

You 2 say that, but why don't you think it's possible! I state this as I load a 264wm with 100 and 140gr and shoot out to 600 without adjusting scope (Leupold old school crosshair). Wind required a little adjusting, but elevation didn't. I really don't adjust optic for wind, only hold with no hold markings. Prairie dog plinking at its finest.

Try it at 1000, and if the OP was talking about holding over, that's different, and not what seemed to be implied to me.

Gravity and velocity decay are both real and so is trajectory, as well as environmental changes. You either have to increase or decrease MV to retain zero, or adjust or hold over. The further the distance, the more pronounced, and the more the environment changes, the more it'll affect things. You can account for drop (gravity) alone by adjusting MV, but not changes in the environment, and those effects grow exponentially as distance to target increases.

Plus, that's not even factoring in being within an accuracy node by adjusting MV by powder charge to retain zero without ever needing to dial or hold over.

 

[birddog 68]

I guess me and this guy are the only ones reloading this way? It is a pain to carry so many different loadings but that's what backpacks are for.

 

[LVJ76]

It's provably a target seeking bullet, or maybe laser guided.

Seriously though, do not pay attention to his reloading advice.

 

[Petey308]

I guess me and this guy are the only ones reloading this way? It is a pain to carry so many different loadings but that's what backpacks are for.

Don't mix them up lol