Holy fucking shit! I can't believe all the arguing back and forth. Do or do not. What the actual fuck? @spife7980 just for fun here.
I will include here a set that I did with a 223 Ackley. I shot 10 groups of 10 seating depth changes after finding my max pressure (not velocity but they are hand in hand) with bullet against the lands. All same charge measured to the kernel with my FX120i scale and auto trickler but finished by hand with a hand trickler.
You see that at touching, I was roughly 1 MOA low, a 1.5MOA group of 10. I meant to dial my scope, just because, but forgot until I shot the first round at -0.001" seating depth, about 1 MOA 9 shot group. I adjusted the scope. At -0.007" there is a flyer that I called. That one is 100% me. Still, group is now about 1 MOA.
There was a slight right to left wind, maybe 3 mph, a few gusts higher, that accounts very slightly for the horizontal stringing.
What seating depth would you choose as being mo betta or are they all good to go?
Edit to say: These groups were fired 45 minutes apart with a thorough cleaning of the rifle after each group of 10. I shot LOTS of 22LR in my Bergara figuring out what it liked on this same day. I also did some verifying with one of my 300 WINMAGS. I wasn't just sitting there waiting for my timer to ding.
I will include here a set that I did with a 223 Ackley. I shot 10 groups of 10 seating depth changes after finding my max pressure (not velocity but they are hand in hand) with bullet against the lands. All same charge measured to the kernel with my FX120i scale and auto trickler but finished by hand with a hand trickler.
You see that at touching, I was roughly 1 MOA low, a 1.5MOA group of 10. I meant to dial my scope, just because, but forgot until I shot the first round at -0.001" seating depth, about 1 MOA 9 shot group. I adjusted the scope. At -0.007" there is a flyer that I called. That one is 100% me. Still, group is now about 1 MOA.
There was a slight right to left wind, maybe 3 mph, a few gusts higher, that accounts very slightly for the horizontal stringing.
What seating depth would you choose as being mo betta or are they all good to go?
Edit to say: These groups were fired 45 minutes apart with a thorough cleaning of the rifle after each group of 10. I shot LOTS of 22LR in my Bergara figuring out what it liked on this same day. I also did some verifying with one of my 300 WINMAGS. I wasn't just sitting there waiting for my timer to ding.
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