Hey guys I'm fairly new to reloading. Had some more experienced family come help me out with initial setup of my reloading station. I know I picked an expensive round to start reloading with ( 338 Lapua) but its so fun to shoot.
So I developed a load that's well under 1moa at 100 yard. But when I stretched the legs on this round at longer distances out to 800 yards I was only able to hit my 12" gong 4 out of 9 rounds. I'm no world class shooter but I figured I should have been able to hit it a lil more than that. So I went to the range and ran that load through the chrono, found I have an extreme spread of damn near 400 fps. Slowest of ten rounds being 2323fps and fastest of 2725. The average of the ten was 2429fps.
I use good quality reloading gear. All brand new. Rcbs chucker press, Rcbs compitition dies, Lyman digital powder measure, digital calipers. That's the basic setup I got a bunch of lil stuff I use too. Anything wrong with this gear?
My load is using all quality reloading Components. Sierra matchkings 300gr, Lapua brass (weight sorted) h1000 powder, and federal match primers.
Every round is measured for oal once it comes out of the press to +-.003
Please help me this is getting expensive lol. What else can I do to make my e/s a lot smaller? I don't care how fast the round is but I would like more long range consistency
So I developed a load that's well under 1moa at 100 yard. But when I stretched the legs on this round at longer distances out to 800 yards I was only able to hit my 12" gong 4 out of 9 rounds. I'm no world class shooter but I figured I should have been able to hit it a lil more than that. So I went to the range and ran that load through the chrono, found I have an extreme spread of damn near 400 fps. Slowest of ten rounds being 2323fps and fastest of 2725. The average of the ten was 2429fps.
I use good quality reloading gear. All brand new. Rcbs chucker press, Rcbs compitition dies, Lyman digital powder measure, digital calipers. That's the basic setup I got a bunch of lil stuff I use too. Anything wrong with this gear?
My load is using all quality reloading Components. Sierra matchkings 300gr, Lapua brass (weight sorted) h1000 powder, and federal match primers.
Every round is measured for oal once it comes out of the press to +-.003
Please help me this is getting expensive lol. What else can I do to make my e/s a lot smaller? I don't care how fast the round is but I would like more long range consistency