I'd been loading at a seating depth that felt reasonable but wasn't based on anything specific to this rifle, so I finally sat down and loaded five separate batches at five different jumps off the lands, .010, .020, .030, .040, and .050, then shot three shot groups across all of them just to see what would actually happen.
The .020 mark turned out to be a clear winner for this particular rifle and bullet combination and the difference wasn't subtle either, those groups came in at nearly half the size of what I was getting at .050. Bullet jump is apparently a real variable and not just something people argue about online for fun, every rifle seems to have its own preference and the only way to actually find yours is to run the test yourself instead of borrowing someone else's seating depth.
The .020 mark turned out to be a clear winner for this particular rifle and bullet combination and the difference wasn't subtle either, those groups came in at nearly half the size of what I was getting at .050. Bullet jump is apparently a real variable and not just something people argue about online for fun, every rifle seems to have its own preference and the only way to actually find yours is to run the test yourself instead of borrowing someone else's seating depth.
