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.243 OCW Load Development

Pulvy

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Mar 27, 2012
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I have been reloading for hunting since I was 12 years old but I am just getting into the longer range precision end of reloading. I am doing load development for my .243 using 115gr DTACs with H4381SC powder, Hornady brass and CCI primers. I went through the OCW steps of the sighters, round robin shooting at .4gr increments and I attached the 5 pictures of targets 2 through 6, it would only let me attach 5. What I am struggling with is there is very little vertical deviation in targets 3 through 6 and I am unsure of where to head to next. My interpretation would be that target 5 is a scatter node due to how well the rest of them all grouped. If target 5 is a scatter that should make something around targets 4 or 6 a good place to look. Any insight is greatly appreciated.

Target #1 (not shown) was 39.2gr stepping up in .4gr increments to Target #6 which was 41.2gr
 

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After I uploaded the pictures I realized how tiny the text was so I resaved them zoomed in a bit.
 

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