I think my question about whether to do a seating depth study was never to say this is not a good place to go in general after shooting the OCW rounds – this is in fact what I do. The question is if you know you are in the accuracy node and your group size is already 0.4 MOA, is it worthwhile to try to reduce its size for FTR?
There is no doubt that if one spent enough time, effort and components, one can improve accuracy, but for example, I have a friend who shot up to 600 rounds looking and you can imagine he has probably already gone through a complete batch of bullets (not to mentioned a significant amount of his barrel life) looking and he has now started a different batch of bullets which means he is probably starting over. If one’s ambition is to do nothing but load development, this is perfect. However, for those that see it as an process to actually go shoot competition, this is stupid.
Even Brian Litz has told us not to bother if you are already shooting 0.5 MOA – thus the question.
Mozella – I am using OnTarget.
Gstaylorg – I don’t know what else to say about the MV except to say that is what I am getting – perhaps a tighter barrel? Using regular Lapua, not Lapua Palma.
In terms of shooting, based on the feedback I get from my fellow competitors and my standing, I generally shoot well in all discipline I shoot in – action pistol, 2-gun, and PRS type. However, I don’t shoot BR and at least to me, trying to shoot in the “2”s consistently falls under those criteria – thus the comment. I also don’t know if these barrels, or the way my gun is setup (AI AT with a Atlas bipod, so NOT a dedicated FTR rifle) as good as they are, are meant to shoot to that degree of precision. Basically if they are not, then one is pretty much chasing one tail.
Offseting my POA is an excellent idea. With the competition, one can certainly make good use of this little trick. Good shooting BTW…
I plan on doing a seating depth study based on the recommendations I got at 100 yards and then move on.
Thanks again for all the inputs – it is much appreciated.