Been lots of discussion on BS for accuracy. One question that comes to mind is the order that one tries all the things Joe listed that might affect accuracy. What made me bring this up is that yesterday at the range I was working on CB loads for a Rem. 700V in 6mm Rem, 9" twist. Without going into long detail something that made a big difference early in the load development was bullet seating depth. I normally have the best accuracy with larger cal. by seating the bullet out to where the rifling engraves the bullet. I was doing this with the 6mm (2.802" oal )and my agg. for three five shot groups at 100yds was2.23", nothing to get excited about. I remember Jim Carmichael had a article on cast bullets in the 6mm, best accuracy was not with the method I had been using. I shot three more five shot groups with the overall length at 2.771". Aggregate of these loads was .865". For this particular rifle this made a dramatic difference in group size. Now I can start checking one at a time factors that do or don't affect accuracy.
Bob
Iowa