308.... when is it good enough?

[Bongos]

I shoot a Custom 308 and at 100 yards, in 5 round groups BR, I'm getting .482", I'm playing with loads down to the .1 grain in powder. I know I can get it smaller if I change the primers to a different brand (using Winchester now) like Fed Gold Match or Wolf. Also thinking of increasing the OAL (currently at 2.8). I know I might get different performance in changing Brass (Remington Now) or Powder (RL15).................................................................................................................................................................

Question is, the list of what I can goes on and on... when does it stop? Or when should you stop?

 

[doc76251]

Re: 308.... when is it good enough?

When does it stop? When you die.

When should you stop? 'Bout the same time.

Cheers,

Doc

 

[sinister]

Re: 308.... when is it good enough?

Are you benchresting or sniping?

Know the difference.

Perfect is the enemy of "Good enough."

I'm trying to smash the electronics of a human being to the range of my weapon and optic. I'd like all the bullets to go through the same hole, but they don't have to.

If your hobby is shooting little bugholes then buy or build a 6mm Benchrest.

If your job is to let the air out of bad guys shoot up a few cases of ammo.

Get the first round kill, not 10-shot one-hole groups.

 

[Bongos]

Re: 308.... when is it good enough?

Bench Rest is all of my shooting

 

[doc76251]

Re: 308.... when is it good enough?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Bongos</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Bench Rest is all of my shooting </div></div>

You're infected with a terminal case of accuracy dependence.

Your screwed for life.

Cheers,

Doc

 

[sinister]

Re: 308.... when is it good enough?

Well, then.

There are an endless number of things you can do (it's perfectionist obsessive-compulsive to the nth degree). It then becomes a cost-benefit decision based on how much you want to be a slave to the reloading bench.

You can weigh all your cases and sort by bell curve. Neck-size only until you get sticky chambering and extraction.

Spin-check all cases, necks, and loaded cartridges for true.

You can inside chamfer and true firing pin holes.

Hand-prime all cases.

Neck turn and ream necks.

Weigh all bullets and spin check for true on a Vern Juenke machine.

Flat-base bullets for 100 and 200.

Hand-throw and trickle all powder charges.

Hand-seat all bullets with an arbor press (short of rifling lands, on lands, and jammed into lands). Sort by feel (easy seating, moderate seating, hard seating).

Again, when are you shooting good enough for what you want to do?

A 6BR will got to a thousand yards with little recoil. A 308 will drop deer to 500 and 600 yards, no sweat with proper placement -- but it'll beat you up with recoil if all you're shooting is 100-200-300 yard BR.

 

[The Mechanic]

Re: 308.... when is it good enough?

neck tension, neck tension, neck tension.

 

[Unknown]

Re: 308.... when is it good enough?

All the items noted above help alot. The one biggest help I found in the last 10 years though was checking bullet runout. When I sort rounds that I have done all the trick things to, and shoot those with .0015 inch runout and less, accuracy for the .0015 and less rounds is considerably better...if I take those rounds with .0005 VS the rounds with .003 the difference at 100 yards can be 1.25 inches at 100 yards VS .3-.4 inches at 100 yards. And flyers are almost non existent.

So if you are already near .5 inches at 100 yards, then sort for runout, you will be really happy with what you find...

 

[desertHK]

Re: 308.... when is it good enough?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: doc76251</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Bongos</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Bench Rest is all of my shooting </div></div>

You're infected with a terminal case of accuracy dependence.

Your screwed for life.

Cheers,

Doc </div></div>

Good luck with your search for the "Holy Grail" of accuracy.