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Reloading to replicate another caliber?
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<blockquote data-quote="Mike Matteson" data-source="post: 3031207" data-attributes="member: 101791"><p>That's part of load development, Finding out what works, and what doesn't work. Just shoot 200fps faster doesn't get it. There needs to be a reason behind the increase in velocity. Me I have several rifles that I use for hunting. If possible I get them to 3200 to 3300fps velocity. Got to group under 1/2" @ 100yds, and hold a 3" group @ 500yds. I generally use a 2x8 or 7 duplex leupold scopes on my rifles. At the higher powder I can size up and animual in the scope at the top powder to determine the range of the animal out 500yds, I do two thinks, I can determine the range of the animal and where to hold on the animal. I develop it a long time ago. It doesn't make much differents in the drop if the bullet is at the same velocity and of the same type or design. </p><p>So I can look thru the scope and see what the range is and where to hold the crosshairs. Being is a duplex type of scope, I can raised the cross up to adjust for range. I only went to 500yds with that system of judging range and hold. I did that n the days of no range finders or they so bad, it made bad look good. It's quick and doesn't make you change from range finder to rifle and scope. Then reacquire the animal in the rifle scope. Just have to besure that the scope is turned up to max powder.</p><p>Part of this is I built frames and targets with the top of the paint target to the bottom of the target. To the chest size of the animals I going to hunt. Then I used the scope on full power to see how it fit inside the scope. So the different distances, I would change my hold or crosshairs to a different spot on the animal depending on how it was showning up. Did shooting at those targets at those ranges to verify the hold and where the bullets were hitting.</p><p>Bottom line is I could take out any of my rilfes and not have to determine what my velocity is and where to hold the rifle on the animal. I am shooting @ 3200fps to 3300fps, and how much was that drop. I was shooting one or about one veloicty so the drop was all about the same. That was before all the scopes that can be adjusted for elevation and windage. Smiple and quick. I still use it today.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mike Matteson, post: 3031207, member: 101791"] That's part of load development, Finding out what works, and what doesn't work. Just shoot 200fps faster doesn't get it. There needs to be a reason behind the increase in velocity. Me I have several rifles that I use for hunting. If possible I get them to 3200 to 3300fps velocity. Got to group under 1/2" @ 100yds, and hold a 3" group @ 500yds. I generally use a 2x8 or 7 duplex leupold scopes on my rifles. At the higher powder I can size up and animual in the scope at the top powder to determine the range of the animal out 500yds, I do two thinks, I can determine the range of the animal and where to hold on the animal. I develop it a long time ago. It doesn't make much differents in the drop if the bullet is at the same velocity and of the same type or design. So I can look thru the scope and see what the range is and where to hold the crosshairs. Being is a duplex type of scope, I can raised the cross up to adjust for range. I only went to 500yds with that system of judging range and hold. I did that n the days of no range finders or they so bad, it made bad look good. It's quick and doesn't make you change from range finder to rifle and scope. Then reacquire the animal in the rifle scope. Just have to besure that the scope is turned up to max powder. Part of this is I built frames and targets with the top of the paint target to the bottom of the target. To the chest size of the animals I going to hunt. Then I used the scope on full power to see how it fit inside the scope. So the different distances, I would change my hold or crosshairs to a different spot on the animal depending on how it was showning up. Did shooting at those targets at those ranges to verify the hold and where the bullets were hitting. Bottom line is I could take out any of my rilfes and not have to determine what my velocity is and where to hold the rifle on the animal. I am shooting @ 3200fps to 3300fps, and how much was that drop. I was shooting one or about one veloicty so the drop was all about the same. That was before all the scopes that can be adjusted for elevation and windage. Smiple and quick. I still use it today. [/QUOTE]
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