Recent content by RTK

Insane!!

Another Amen

How in the hell do you get that much English on a ball

Damn that guy can shooooot, I might as well give up, I'll never be able to shoot like that. What a crock

No body has mentioned mirage yet......... Where I shoot at times I am in the dirt prone, there always seems to be some mirage, on lower power settings I tend not to chase the target as much, which I shouldn't do in the first place..

Unfortunately when lawsuits happen, the only true winners are the lawyers......................

I too have found this to be a big factor in run out.

+1

If you don't have a way of calculating density altitude just use station pressure, temperature, and humidity. That is density altitude, Guestimate humidity it is a minor factor anyway.

If I am not mistaken the more copper the better.

I mainly use a chrono to find out how consistent I am reloading, consistency of a load, (es & sd) and to get a rough number to plug into my ballistic program. After that all dope is done by shooting and adjusting the program

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Seems to always work that way for me too:)

It would be very interesting to find out through testing what the gain is for each extra additional step.

I agree 100% with all that sterling shooter has said, and the reason for that is, I have experienced everything the OP has gone through over the last 43 years of shooting and hunting, especially with the larger caliber rifles. I can get a "little' sloppy with the pea shooters and not suffer...