Originally Posted By: biggen0_8
I know I probably went into much more detail than you wanted, sorry about that. Apologies to the OP didn't mean to hijack your thread.
Actually this is the direction I was wanting this thread to go. That is why I said in my opening post to "feel free to add your comments".
My frustrations is: I have actually reloaded for only about 9 months, but I had been rigorously studying it for two years before I started. Yes. I have a pretty decent working knowledge of the reloading process BUT I am still doing some stuff VERY wrong. I get so frustrated when 3-4 shots of a 5 shot group are touching, but the other 1-2 shots are flyers that turn a sub half-inch group into a 1.25 inch group.
My other frustration is I will go to the shooting range and shoot a FABOULUS group with a particular bullet/powder combination and then go back the next week with some fresh ammo loaded to exact same specs but I can not repeat the results from the previous week.