Acceptable accuracy
- Thread starter Foxyboy43
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Spot on, I reckon off sticks I'm inch and a half or less reliably. Off a rest "sub MOA" but in the field its bit low, just lungs, or spot on heart and lungs, or neck. Thankfully I don't f@ck it up too often. I think practice and confidence in your rifle and round is key.
Never use sticks, hate the bloody things. Use bipod or the side of a tree.
Zeroing at 200yds very rarely shoot more than that off bipod.
.243 w 90 gr Sako, 2 in red 1 just above 1" squares. Well good enough for everything I shoot. Military tools were never that good in my day but targets were bigger.
Zeroing at 200yds very rarely shoot more than that off bipod.
.243 w 90 gr Sako, 2 in red 1 just above 1" squares. Well good enough for everything I shoot. Military tools were never that good in my day but targets were bigger.
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Tried singles, twin, tripods, all quads from Blaser down. Sticks and me just aint compatible. Shot a thousand or two without and at my age I've said fck the sticks together with them thermal or digital things.
Rhodesianjess
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Good practice, always zero to the conditions that you'll be using the rifle in.
Unless you're carrying your bench around with you
Jamie florence
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Sub 1/4” if I’m using my 6br, any other rifle sub 1” will do
Jamie florence
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5 leg vipers are as good as a bench in my opinion!
Leec6.5
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Can’t get my head around this fifth leg business, maybe old-fashioned, four people have got too much money to spend one or the other
Jamie florence
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Hard to get used to but once your fast at deploying the 5th leg it is as stable as a bipod. I shot 20 deer Monday, all headshot…
If you shot 20 in a day, I would respectfully suggest you get out more as you have a problem. Unless it was a Park or Farm.
Jamie florence
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Big problem, working on it!
I look for 1 moa whatever, as I know that anything worse is me. When I miss it’s me not the rifle, or if at the range, it’s something I have or haven’t done - but still me. Im more interested in where the first shot goes - get that right and no need for additional shots, because the quarry is down. The rest is pure entertainment.Hmmm.
Lots of interesting views about what is acceptable from a rifle but let’s stretch it a bit and factor in different scenarios especially YOU - the man or woman or….. behind the rifle ….
Sooo your firearm of choice is clearly lazer-like but what do you consider a shooter’s acceptable accuracy to be:-
1. Off the bench;
2. Off a bipod: and
3. Off sticks - twin, triple or quad?
Honest replies only chaps…
Scotty99
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Just a selection of my load development results over the past few years with various rifles and loads. Reloading with due diligence, care, patience and persistence will get you to where you want to be. The squares on the targets are 1inch square. I always try to get the best groups I can.
TimWest308
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Anything under an inch will kill,
Indeed it will. So will anything under four inches. Just as dead.
enfieldspares
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It depends surely on the distance to target?
I use air rifles for head shooting squirrels in cage traps. The air rifle is about three inches away from the squirrel's head when I pull the trigger. I couldn't care less about how it groups but I do care about if it has the power to pierce the skull.
I'd guess if you were shooting deer or woild boar from a high seat at with an old .308 Parker Hale at, at most, twenty yards that a two inch group would be good enough? But by extrapolation that two inches at twenty yards is at best ten inches at one hundred yards and IMHO that is a rifle that needs scrapping.
Anyway here's an "accuracy" joke....
In late eighteen hundred and whatever maker of a new rifle is demonstrating it to some Generals. He sets up the then usual canvas screen target at the demanded distance of five hundred yards. A screen target was a canvas target six feet high and usually thirty yards or so wide. To represent a body of men advancing in column of attack.
He fires fifteen shots. All are within just a mere three feet of the chosen point of aim. A six foot group no less. At five hundred yards. Unheard of for the time!
He proudly says to the assembled military men that this shows his new rifle is superior to the current pattern. As the current pattern would have had its shots distributed all over the target. Some to the left edge some to the right edge, some in the middle, some to well either side of the middle. But his new rifle? A six foot group right in the centre no less!
"Harrumph!" exclaims the oldest General. "That's no good at all. As if at Waterloo I was a Frenchman on the left side of the column or the right side of the column I'd have been safe. Whereas with the current rifle it wherever I positioned myself in the column I wouldn't have been at all safe!"
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