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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Larry Morgan" data-source="post: 2802292" data-attributes="member: 4676">I can appreciate your position of practicality, because there is certainly a point of diminishing returns. I personally do not measure true neck tension either, but I know it's probably affecting me (and I take note if it varies enough I can feel). And you won't catch me neck turning or measuring run-out either. I don't even sort the cases or bullets by weight. To quote one benchrest shooter "If you have to sort the bullets by weight, then you need to be buying better bullets". Oddly enough, I obsess over charge weight. I am constantly trying to dream up ways to decrease the spread. My wife thinks I've lost it sometimes! But even with all that, I've managed to get my factory barreled .223 remington down to the .5moa range and it performs satisfactory (for me, anyway) out to 800yds. I'm definitely an advocate of the clean less, shoot more philosophy. If your barrel wasn't hand lapped, though, it might foul faster early on until the roughness from the rifling tooling wears down some. It might be interesting to clean all the fouling out, including copper, then see how the velocity behaves as more and more shots are put through. Also, Reloader 15 is an awesome powder for .223, if you can find it. It's what I currently use for my most accurate load. IMR-4895, H4895, Benchmark, Varget, H335, H332, BL-C2, and Ramshot TAC are all notable performers in .223. There are so many choices, it could take awhile to find the very best one.Good luck with it!</blockquote>

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