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Yes. Don't accept or reject any ideas without testing yourself. I pretty much agree with INshooter except I see no need to start with other than what is proven. VV 133, if you load to an upper node load stays stable has been my experience. I shoot matches out to 500 yds with mine. You will love it. If you want to try something other than vv133 I am finding lt30 working well and it is reputed to be very stable. Have fun.
I have a light weight 6PPC hunting rifle that I have shot many,many deer with. Most have dropped on the spot. I shoot 70 gr Nosler BT's in it. I have never lost an animal with it. The farthest shot taken was 237 yds and the deer went approx. 50 yds. The bullet went thru both shoulders and actually blowed pieces of bone out the exit hole. My pet load has been 26.5 gr. H322 with the 70 gr. Nosler BT. It is also very accurate with the Nosler 55 BT's as well.
Yes the PPC will take down a 10 lb sow, she popped out one last time at my home range.
The PPC is not set up for long bullets and won't stabilize the smaller lead-free with the twist used for bench rest. Not many bullets designed for big game that are light enough to stabilize and/or fit. Still - you can kill them with careful shot placement with the smaller bullets (65-70 grain). On a big pig - I'd go head shot.
No, he is wrong.
Old thread but research tuners on here. Yes, they can help with exactly the point of your post. That being, tuning at the range without loading at the range.
Getting the tuner, having the barrel turned for a tuner is what's involved.
Lots are out there and being used on ppc's and just about any chambering that works in competition..and then some. Even air rifles.
When I was shooting BR, I'd pre-load the night before after looking at the weather report - and the range I went to has a weather meter which could be accessed online. Does not take the place of on-site tuning - but would at least ensure I was not taken out of my accuracy window by a big temperature change or dramatic change in humidity. I didn't (and still don't) have a tuner. When you always start your shooting on "Zero' scope setting, and record where the hits are (ie: 3/16" high, 3/16" low, etc.) in low or no-wind condition - you can see, over time, the approximate impact that external factors have on your load - but you must also record the temp and humidity so that you can detect the repeatable patterns over time. Doing this will help you to have a load that has shown to usually be in tune in these conditions. I have shot with a few guys who had it down quite well. And they tended to do better on average because of it. I and some others had rifles just as accurate and our shooting skills just as good (I think?)- but that tune can drift around ever so slightly all the time. I personally found it distracting to load at the range, but I might have done it if I had wanted to get more serious than I was.
