Skip02, I built a 270, I loaded 12 different loads of 10 rounds each using different case head stamps, powders and bullets. I went to the firing range and took most of the day trying to determine what the rifle liked. The groups moved but all the groups could be covered with a quarter. Some of the groups shared the same hole.
I delivered the rifle with 12 different loads of 10 rounds each with 12 different head stamps. My instructions to the new owner suggested he determine what the rifle liked. Time past, I had to ask, if the rifle liked one loading over the other I could cut down on the variety. The new owner is an incredible shot. He said he took one round out of the box and shot it. After the one shop he adjusted the scope then put the next 9 rounds thought the same hole.
He returned the fired cases in a bag. Did that drive me to the curb? Or put another way: did that lock me up? No; To get all the cases back together in groups of 10 I tumbled and then separated by head stamp. The ammo boxes I gave him were in another bag.
Had I taken a rifle to the range that was not accurate it is possible the rifle would not have liked one of the 12 loads. I am surrounded by accurate reloaders. I took a 300 Win Mag to the range, by the time I ran 120 rounds through it I gave up. I called a near-by reloader. He said we could find something that rifle liked. When we left the rang he decided that rifle did not like itself. It went back to Winchester. They suggested I shoot it more. And then; We had words.
F. Guffey
