Almost doesn’t count

[Schippergreg]

Greg tell us about your bullets and the load you found that was working so well that day

The bullet is a 66.4gr made from a Sierra .810 jacket in a 8 ogive detsch die. I was shooting it behind 29.1 gr of lot 6 Lt32. Bullet was .012 into the lands.

 

[6MMsteve]

Dam Good Shooting

 

[Schippergreg]

Congrats, fine shooting for sure.

I'm however somewhat perplexed by this: "On the first target’s sighter, the 6mm bullet burned a hole measuring .222 and that became the standard the groups were measured with". I understand compensating for paper reaction, but why not on each target? Each sheet of target paper is potentially unique?

That was my understanding from my phone conversation with Mike that the first available single hole is what is used for the zero. I could be mistaken, it’s definitely happened before. Simply my guess, not every target has a single bullet hole on the sighter to reference with and a lot of shooters, myself included, bring multiple loads to the line to test. A load slightly out of tune will produce a larger hole in the paper than one in tune. When groups are one ragged hole there is no definite way to tell which load produced the group. I personally believe that choosing a singular hole to use as the standard across all groups to be fair.
Once I received my targets back from the committee, I measured them using a single hole from the first target and I came up with virtually the same measurement as the committee.

 

[ISS]

First week of Army Ranger School they taught the exceptions to "almost".

1 Nuclear Weapons
2 Hand grenades ( we lump in Artillery and Bombs as #2B and #2C.
3 Horse Shoes

That said, you ARE on the right trail...