I hate load development...really...
I know it's a necessary evil, but damn, it never seems to end in pursuit of the perfect round- I just want to get it over with and get on with the shooting!
That said, I use OCW, mainly because the range closest to me is only 100 yards (they have a 200 M but it's only open one day per month due to lack of interest). The 1000 yard range is nearly a two hour drive each way so we tend to do more real shooting when we go there.
I do plan to try longer range paper aka the ladder method next time when I can stretch it out to 400-500 yards.
I've not seen it discussed much before- but what OCW at 100 yards does not account for is SD in bullet velocity. You can have a huge spread in velocity from a load that prints very well at 100- but stretch it out and the vertical becomes a real liability. I think this, at least some of the time, is why OCW developed loads may not perform as well at long range- and why I always try to have a chrono under the bullets as well.
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