06-03-2020, 10:33 AM
First klem let me acknowledge the great deal of work and brain power you have put into this, really great! I started the thread to gather information about the Satterlee method and how it works or dose not work for those that have tried it and the posts here have answered the call.
Let me now try to channel Satterlee to a small degree and take your data and play with it a bit.
In Satterlee's world he is more focused on hitting steel at long range (1000 yards plus) so the ES and SD are more important to him than absolute small groups at closer range. At some point in a long range trajectory a low ES load with average sized groups (at short range) will out preform a larger ES load that had a smaller group at short range. The variations in bullet velocity from a high ES load causing enough vertical variation to make a miss.
So he would see your node at 22.3 and see that it produced the best SD ES with your 5 round tests and the next step would be if he didn't like the group size would be to play with the seating depth to get that load to group as small as possible, then to try that load at long range (600 yards to 1000 yards) to verify that he can make hits with it.
So it might just be that if you used your superbly accurate 23.5 load for a competition on targets out to 600 yards you would score better than the 22.3 load but at 800 or more the 22.3 load would work better (imagine your data came from a 6.5 Creed).
This is all theory to me so far so I may be completely wrong! But the people that swear by it shoot a whole lot more than me and at a lot longer distance and are high in the rankings in the ELR game so I will give some credence that it can work.
Let me now try to channel Satterlee to a small degree and take your data and play with it a bit.
In Satterlee's world he is more focused on hitting steel at long range (1000 yards plus) so the ES and SD are more important to him than absolute small groups at closer range. At some point in a long range trajectory a low ES load with average sized groups (at short range) will out preform a larger ES load that had a smaller group at short range. The variations in bullet velocity from a high ES load causing enough vertical variation to make a miss.
So he would see your node at 22.3 and see that it produced the best SD ES with your 5 round tests and the next step would be if he didn't like the group size would be to play with the seating depth to get that load to group as small as possible, then to try that load at long range (600 yards to 1000 yards) to verify that he can make hits with it.
So it might just be that if you used your superbly accurate 23.5 load for a competition on targets out to 600 yards you would score better than the 22.3 load but at 800 or more the 22.3 load would work better (imagine your data came from a 6.5 Creed).
This is all theory to me so far so I may be completely wrong! But the people that swear by it shoot a whole lot more than me and at a lot longer distance and are high in the rankings in the ELR game so I will give some credence that it can work.