Am I the only one that doesn't enjoy shooting ladder tests?

[tiny68]

300 yard (or more) ladders are pretty revealing when starting from scratch

I think I can tune a load fairly quickly with the ladder method. I seat the bullet 0>020" off the lands, then run 0.3 gr increments for a medium case capacity over 3 grain window. I pulled my hair out trying to learn something with the ladder method at 100 yards. Shoot them at 300 yards. And only shot them in the best of conditions (which doesn't happen often in Oklahoma). I tend to look at the vertical as the key component but the horizontal has value as well. If I find 3 weights that give close vertical at 300 yards, I pick the middle one and start playing with seating depth or neck tension.

I don't know of an easier way to learn something with only 10 wasted bullets.

To each his own I guess.

Luck, Tim