True the ladder did not really tell me much. The missing shots went high barrel grazing the plate.

The first ladder I did was 33-37 gr and they were evenly spaces rising up.

I would much rather shoot a ladder at 500 but I haven't had any luck with finding a good place for that. 325 I can do in my yard.

Quote Originally Posted by Bigguy View Post
I did the same thing as you with my 22-250. However the culprit is the distance you are sighted in for. If sighted in for 300 or even 200, your groups will not spread over 4" from slowest bullet to fastest bullet. Spend some time with a ballistic program and you will see what I mean. Sight in at the closest distance possible, say 50 yds. Then your groups should spread close to 8" at 325. The first ladder test I did, at 400 yds, gave me a sub MOA group over a 10 shot spread from lightest to heaviest load. Thinking I wasn't far enough away I repeated at 650 yds with the same result, but I was adjusting the scope to those distances.
Quote Originally Posted by joeb33050 View Post
Mystery, requiring my Sherlock Holmes hat. These 2 pix are front and back of the same target, 2 holes are missing, 1 and 2 are a problem and 9 looks like a fluke. More 100 yard work needed, I think. The ladder test didn't quit work out.