-I found 20-30 pieces of LC brass in my brass collecting. Looks to be mixed headstamp ranging from 05-11. Im running low of my usual FC brass so im going to try and use the LC. Anyone use LC .308 brass? Im starting to get my accuracy down finally, but will switching brass cause me to start all over? What sort of case capacity difference is there? Should I keep every year headstamp together, or can I use say a few from 05,06 and 09? I only have a few pieces of each year.
- I weighed and measured the box of 168gr SMK that Im using. The results surprised me. They measure from 1.205" to 1.220:. Would it help my accuracy to keep the same measured weights together?
- Im getting frustrated with my 5 shot groups. I have a question about ladder tests. I know you load up one round at each charge and shoot them at 200-300 yards at the same spot to see the spread of poi, and then when the vertical poi starts closing together youre closing in on an accuracy node. My question is what kind of spread for charges should I use ? Say im using 168gr smk with IMR 4895. Hodgdon's data spreads the min at 41gr and max at 45.4gr C. Say I start at 40gr, should I load up a charge every .3gr, every .5gr or more? I don't have an easy to keep track of which shot hits where. I was reading that some people color in each charge with permanent markers and make a key of which color goes to each charge. Does this work?
- I weighed and measured the box of 168gr SMK that Im using. The results surprised me. They measure from 1.205" to 1.220:. Would it help my accuracy to keep the same measured weights together?
- Im getting frustrated with my 5 shot groups. I have a question about ladder tests. I know you load up one round at each charge and shoot them at 200-300 yards at the same spot to see the spread of poi, and then when the vertical poi starts closing together youre closing in on an accuracy node. My question is what kind of spread for charges should I use ? Say im using 168gr smk with IMR 4895. Hodgdon's data spreads the min at 41gr and max at 45.4gr C. Say I start at 40gr, should I load up a charge every .3gr, every .5gr or more? I don't have an easy to keep track of which shot hits where. I was reading that some people color in each charge with permanent markers and make a key of which color goes to each charge. Does this work?
