For me it's about keeping my presses a bit cleaner. I wet tumble with no pins to get most of the crud off. Then they dry and I use a single stage to decap. Then I tumble with pins.
I load for bullseye and have plenty of brass. Only really reload once a year for the season, so that leaves me...
The 6oc and sub-6 holds also help you keep your focus on the front sight. If your focus shifts to the target instead of the front sight, grouping will be quite difficult.
I haven't made a round go off since July. Life has been busy lately. We just moved and I had the joy of moving:
3500 147gr 9mm JHP
5000 185gr .45 JHP
2000 158gr .38 RN
2000 185gr .45 SWC
And all the brass and primers to load all of that.
Ready to get it done, after I find everything in...
The quality of your gun/ammo combo will be more pronounced at 50y. I was told early on in bullseye that most pistols will shoot a box of rocks well at 25y.
As proof, I shoot my great grandfather's WW1 1911 in the M&P and As-Issued matches which are all at 25y. That gun sounds like a baby...
It's easy to try to dress up shots too much in slow which leads to poor trigger control. You feel you can snatch the 10 or X, but that usually leads to snatching the trigger ruining all your good hold work.
Timed fire is fast enough to force you to stay on the trigger while slow enough to...
I'm at Atterbury now and look a walk down the line. You can pretty much sum it up as :
185gr lead SWC HP
185gr SWC
185gr JHP
200gr SWC
There is more variety at the short line (25y), but accuracy isn't the same issue there.
Smallbore prone and position shooters will use 25-30x. Our 10rings are about a dime at 50m and a quarter at 100m. We might drop the power some to shoot offhand, but 30x isn't too bad offhand either.
The 158gr loaded light for BE shooting with Titegroup is around 3.0gr with a 6in barrel. I'd imagine you could go a little lighter than that by a couple 1/10ths at least.
Forgot to mention, here's a forum completely devoted to Bullseye:
https://www.bullseyeforum.net/
Lots of High Masters, National Champions, some Olympians, and a number of highly regarded gunsmiths regularly post.
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