Houston Warehouse and OCW

[TF160 Guy]

I read the following in the Houston Warehouse article by Dave Scott. While I understand this is bench shooting, does it have any application in OCW load development?

"...if the bullets were seated a little short and the powder charge was a bit on the light side, the groups formed vertically. As he seated the bullets farther out and increased the powder charge, the groups finally became horizontal. If he went still farther, the groups formed big globs."

 

[Dusty Stevens]

It works in any rifle. Not sure if its part of any official load development cult but itll work anytime

 

[LarryDScott]

The only problem w/this story, I dont
own such a building. Talk about a dream. LDS

 

[BoydAllen]

You can learn an lot in a very short time if you are loading where you are shooting. No short range benchrest shooter that I am aware of uses OCW and virtually all of those that shoot group load and tune at the range. Ponder that for a bit.

 

[riflewoman]

There are two ranges near where I live that have 100 yards indoors. You don’t see a lot of Benchrest shooters shooting at these ranges.

I think the reason is that the shooters themselves don’t have the technique. In the article it was usually only one man who did the firing. True your testing a rifle and seeing if it can shoot groups “in the zeros”. But in order to use that potential you need to have the technique.

Also remember that these results were obtained on a handful of rifles using actions, barrels, bullets, loading methods, and gunsmithing that would be considered only average today. It might be nice to try and duplicate the findings but I’m not sure it would be easy or of much use.

 

[ShootDots]

A few things to consider when looking at the results from extensive testing at The Houston Warehouse. ONE: The vast majority, if not ALL of the testing, was done with SHORT RANGE bench rifles. TWO: These rifles had small powder capacities and shot light bullets. These bullets have VERY short bearing surfaces, most I am quite sure were FLAT BASE bullets. AND as such, they were using fairly slow twist barrels. THREE: Atmospheric conditions were pretty much under control! Many, if not most, of the shooting disciplines today are the exact opposite of the warehouse. We use bullets with LONG bearing surfaces, utilizing very fast twists with cartridges that would be anywhere from 25-100 percent MORE case capacity. DOES THIS translate into something different or would the same "principles" they encountered still apply? I am of the opinion that for short range benchrest disciplines, it would directly apply. However, in a completely different environment, I am of the opinion that those principles would not..

 

[Delfuego]

The only problem w/this story, I dont
own such a building. Talk about a dream. LDS

Heard a story today about old salt mines, anybody live near one of those?

 

[LarryDScott]

When I am load developing I like to get
a person who is a known GOOD shot,
fire these rounds. This takes my
possible mistakes out of the equation. If
the load looks good, its on me
to follow up. LDS

 

[GSPV]

Of course there is horizontal and vertical. Ya don’t think that all that oscillation is only happening in the vertical plane, do you?