Thread: Seeing the light: A load development case study

Originally Posted by Friwi

Hey gimp,
Take a look at the little crow gunwork load development, if you have patience . You can flick through over the first gear episodes to focus more on the shooting results and the stats:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lB_x2V...hhbmRsb2FkaW5n

I've been aware of this series but haven't watched it yet. I will dig into it when I find the time. With Dennis' videos you can really quickly skim them and read the youtube transcript to mine the data so it isn't a big time commitment. Aside from the fact that each of the little crow videos is an hour long of some dude talking, the 3-shot test methodology is a big red flag but I'll have to see what he actually has to say before I make any further judgement

Originally Posted by 7mm tragic

Well he has a bit over 3000 subscribers and I'm sure he is having fun.

Please don't interpret this as me making fun of Dennis - I think he's provided a wonderful source of data to look at the effectiveness of these conventional methods for load development. Analysing his results complements the work I've done with my own shooting, but provides a third-party source, where I cannot be accused of obfuscation.

Originally Posted by Tentman

At least he does post 10 shot grouos from his Tikka 223. That saved me from buying one, and every now and then I do think of him when I get tempted to try another factory cheapie 223.

His efforts are a good reference point for the precision one might expect from a representative good factory barrel, albeit mounted in a chassis. Certainly not a 0.5MOA cone of fire.