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603Country · March 3, 2013, 01:55 PM

What I don't have is the guaranteed answer to your problem. There are those on the forum that'll tell you that there are no flyers - that the bullet went where the case, load, and bullet teamed up to hit. That may actually be true, but unfortunately that one bullet is still outside of where you wanted it to be. Some years ago I had a similar problem with my 220 Swift and Norma brass, and based on something I had read I started marking the cases that were associated with the flyers. If those particular cases, in subsequent shooting, continued their evil ways, they were tossed on the ground at the shooting range. That did lead to improvements in grouping.

I'll assume that you are doing an OCD type prep on the cases, and sorting by weight. And I'll assume that the flyer isn't always the 5th shot, which would indicate that the problem was operator error caused by pressure on yourself to make the next shot go into that small group. That last shot into a great group is always the toughest for me.

March 3, 2013, 01:55 PM	#2
603Country Senior Member Join Date: January 6, 2011 Location: Thornton, Texas Posts: 4,039	What I don't have is the guaranteed answer to your problem. There are those on the forum that'll tell you that there are no flyers - that the bullet went where the case, load, and bullet teamed up to hit. That may actually be true, but unfortunately that one bullet is still outside of where you wanted it to be. Some years ago I had a similar problem with my 220 Swift and Norma brass, and based on something I had read I started marking the cases that were associated with the flyers. If those particular cases, in subsequent shooting, continued their evil ways, they were tossed on the ground at the shooting range. That did lead to improvements in grouping. I'll assume that you are doing an OCD type prep on the cases, and sorting by weight. And I'll assume that the flyer isn't always the 5th shot, which would indicate that the problem was operator error caused by pressure on yourself to make the next shot go into that small group. That last shot into a great group is always the toughest for me.