Thread: A superb article on why "node load deveopment" is toast

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

A wise man once said to me he picked a load between middle n hot in manual,loaded up rounds and went hunting...not a hell of a lot different to back when we just bought box of whatever was on shelf,fired a couple of shots into a pizza box to check zero and carried on. My days of firing fifteen into paper and five at animals are long over.

Haha that's what I did for my 416 rem.
Some head scratching over powder (ended up with 2206 only because it could do lighter bullets-more useful for deer type animals here in nz). Started in the higher level of middle and had loads I reckoned to do 1"ish at a hundy. Only shot at 50 as it was handy and still had some ammo that it was sighted in to use up first.
A couple put over a mates chrony a while later showed very good velocity, actually very close to the full load specs from ADI.
Which is also a classic example of why you are meant to start low lol.
Fast forward to recently, an acquaintance put some down range with his batch of 2206 and went with a mid range load about a grain less than mine.
Applicable drop in speed by about 100-150fps but was shooting moa at a hundy.
Just a good mix of powder, projectiles, cases and rifle