J.B.,
It's always a mistake to correct off of one shot, you have no way of knowing where in the "group" that one shot is. It so happens that #1 was the left most shot of the group, but #2 would have been the highest shot even if I had not come up on my sight setting and would have been centered on the target and most likely in the X-ring if I had just left things alone. With the wind from 10 o'clock at 7-10 mph the little bit of horizonal spread doesn't bother me at all and the vertical would have been about 1 1/2" if not for my twisting on the knobs.
At a match I would never make a full value correction based on one shot unless I saw a condition change after the shot that I believed to be full value and even then I am very conservative in my corrections. I always move toward the center but I much prefer to take two shots and two corrections rather than jump clear across the target and shoot a 6 on the opposite side.
I believe I am approaching a sub MOA group capability with this bullet, I just need to keep a close eye on the old guy on the trigger. I haven't even started working with the powder charge yet. I've tinkered with wads and primers but that's it. To say I like this bullet would be an understatement and the mold has been very easy to cast with.
Who would have thought that an old style bullet in an old style cartridge would have worked so good!
I'm loading up 15 more of the same load tonight and I'll shoot them as soon as I have time and some reasonable weather. It's supposed to snow for the next 3 or 4 days and then drop down into the single digits for a time. It's not likely I be shooting much at zero degrees! My fingers get pretty cold handling the wet patches at 28 degrees. I might do some casting, maybe some more of these 1.350" long bullets!
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