Quote Originally Posted by charlie b View Post
Your target looks great, especially for a 1st load. I'd hunt with that any day.

I would hope you are not put off by some comments.

Some of us are a bit obsessed with how small our groups can become. It is a personality issue that needs to be professionally resolved, although we are reluctant to consult a licensed practitioner. So, we deal with our mania by buying different powders, primers, bullets and cases. Then specially made tooling to measure and reload the cartridges. Then we spend months (if not years) of reloading and shooting, tweaking each of the many parameters to try to see small improvements.

Then if we have not been able to print a 10 round, one hole group, we either cry ourselves to sleep at night or we go out and buy another barrel/rifle to try to appease out inner demons. :)
That is a little bit harsh IMHO, While we can agree that a hunting rifle and a plinker should have different expectations than a target rifle, when someone post a 1 inch group with the recipe It isn't outlandish for someone to offer advice. We all know what a rabbit hole accuracy can be. We also know that savages can shoot very well. No matter, Some are looking for help and some are not. I will leave it to the op to establish that up front. So don't be so hard on yourself and I!!!!

Bad Bob, Good job and get those kids out shooting. We need to hook up sometime bob. Im only an hour away.