This is why I love reloading

[shocker998md]

Rock island 1911 with some Wilson parts at 12 yards went from this with 4.8 grains of tight group, 230 rn hornady, winchester primer.



To this with 5 grains of tight group. The two drops were 100% me pushing into the trigger and being sloppy.

 

[BossmanPJ]

Damn nice shooting.

 

[FrankZ]

Damn nice shooting.

Well.. other than those bottom 2....

 

[BossmanPJ]

Well.. other than those bottom 2....

Don't worry about those little guys.

 

[Blacksmith101]

Try 4.9 grains and 5.1 grains next.

 

[Doctor_M]

Wow... that is a significant difference. Tell the truth, where you drinking before the first set :-)

 

[Blacksmith101]

Wow... that is a significant difference. Tell the truth, where you drinking before the first set :-)

If you work up loads in small increments you will find accuracy nodes with varying dispersion in between. Once you find the sweet spot stay with it because if you change anything you need to start working up loads to find the sweet spot again. Reloading is all about the variables.

And the sweet spot for your rifle may be different than the sweet spot that works in my rifle even using the same components.

 

[shocker998md]

Wow... that is a significant difference. Tell the truth, where you drinking before the first set :-)

Nope not until I was done reloading for that night.

I swear every shot on the first target felt good too. I've stuck with this load for right now and loaded up an ammo can full.

 

[DaemonAssassin]

That is darn nice shooting. You might have found a darn good load for your pistol.

 

[Matlack]

Well.. other than those bottom 2....

What this little guy? Don't worry about that little guy.

 

[Magnumite]

You have a nice load developing there. Did you fit a barrel bushing to that pistol?

 

[byf43]

NICE group with the 5.0 grain load!!!!!!!

Very nice!

 

[trickg]

That's pretty cool - I had no idea that .2 gr would have that big of a difference. I've always had pretty consistent accuracy with Bullseye, no matter what charge I've used.

 

[shocker998md]

You have a nice load developing there. Did you fit a barrel bushing to that pistol?

nope all that's don't are sights, Wilson oversized slide release and safty, Wilson trigger and hammer. Its pretty much factory aside from some touchy feely comforts.

 

[alucard0822]

I've quit using a lot of powders because they didn't meter well, or had a big velocity and accuracy spread with a small change in charge weight titegroup being one of them. Been really happy with CFE pistol in service caliber autos and Bullseye is my trusty standard in revolver/45ACP. Some like Power pistol are hugely versatile in magnum auto calibers like 10mm, 38super and 360 Rowland. In my 45/460Rowland It gives me good performance from powderpuff 6.5gr under a 230gr for 800FPS up to 12.5gr under a 230gr XTP for 1350FPS, never found a load with it that doesn't shoot well.

 

[Jaybeez]

That's pretty cool - I had no idea that .2 gr would have that big of a difference. I've always had pretty consistent accuracy with Bullseye, no matter what charge I've used.

Tightgroup typically has a very small range from min to max. 0.1 gr can make a dramatic difference.