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Originally Posted by Tanick
Just out of interest, has anyone had a primer go bang whilst seating it? I sit there with my eye and ear protectors on and hold my breath each time I pull down on the press. I'm quite new to reloading and still struggling to get under 1MOA.
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I have never heard of a primer going off while being seated. As long as you are using tools designed for the job, I don't see how that can happen.
What firearm, in what caliber, do you reload for and shoot? There are some combinations or firearm and chambering that are simple incapable of the mythical one minute of angle.
Funny, modern gun writers and the pulp magazines they feed have somehow convinced the shooting public that any old gun in any old caliber simply
must shoot moa or it's next to worthless. Hogwash. Nothing could be further from the truth. The simple fact of the matter is that most rifles will
never achieve that loft panacea, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with them.
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Originally Posted by lane912
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take all the projectiles and weigh them out and separate them by weight.
i use a digital scale that does a tenth of a grain. you will see a range of weights that vary by one or two grains.
I found that by keeping the projectiles together grouped by weight my grouping tightened up quickly.
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I do this as a matter of routine with the cast bullets I use for black powder match shooting. I used to do it with the cast bullets I used for pistol match shooting as well. It's served me well for sorting my own cast bullets, which do vary enough to affect group size. As far as commercially produced jacketed rifle bullets, though, I have never seen any advantage. They are just that good these days.
There are usually other factors that have a far greater influence on accuracy. Bullet selection itself is probably the most important; a quality bullet of a weight suitable for the rifling twist in the given firearm goes a long ways. Seating depth is probably the single most overlooked factor in accuracy, or the lack thereof. It's amazing how sensitive some rifles are to this single factor. Nail those two, and typically any reasonable powder suited to the cartridge and bullet weight, and any reasonable charge of that powder, will shoot well.