Well, in simple terms, it just where the load shoots best in your particular rifle. Ime though, there are pre-sale group shapes that occur as you move closer or further from its best. The telltale aspect of your groups is that they seem to all have the diagonal up and to the right shape characteristic. It can be other things as well as tune but from a right hand twist barrel, there is no wind condition that will do that. The fact that it repeats that same shape means you're either doing the same thing wrong repeatedly or it's another issue and tune is likely because it repeated...but it's not wind. That's big when it comes do diagnosing issues such as tune problems. If you are loading where you have room to go up without pressure problems, that's what I'd do. Because it repeats, I think it may have much more potential left. if it's a safe load, go up .4-.5 and leave everything else alone and try it.
What's this group tell you ?
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Ned Ludd
Silver $$ Contributor
Nothing weird appears to be going on with the group. It's more or less "round", meaning width and height are about the same. If your "budget" rifle setup can do this consistently, then you've gotten your money's worth and more. I have a Sig 556 DMR for which I recently started reloading and 1.0 MOA seems to be about the best I can do with it. That's fine, I have several precision bolt rifles for whenever the need to stack them up in one ragged hole comes over me. Nonetheless, shooting an an AR-type rifle with a lower powered optic can be a lot of fun, even if it's much more difficult to obtain sub-MOA precision. Shoot it and enjoy!
Wolfdog91
Silver $$ Contributor
gotta say it's pretty fun slapping steel is it's it and my hand loads ! Won't be winning any competitions but it's pretty fun lol
Good job and it looks like a lot of fun.
Wolfdog, you have renewed my interest in my .223 gas gun. I will he getting it out building a load for it and do some steel banging.
Jeff Porter
Gold $$ Contributor
Up your powder and shorten the bullet. I run those 2.240” and 2900 fps with good results in a Wylde chamber 20” at.
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