Reloading why did i bother ?

I don't think so.
I have had rifles in different bores, different factory makes and aftermarket bespoke built guns from.22.--700 and each and everyone shot perfect after 5-6 rounds.
Ok some would shoot well after cleaning, but never at their best.
Some like my current 375AI will shoot perfect groups from its 4th shot after cleaning to almost 100 shots before needing cleaned. Others like my BSA with Sassen barrel in 7mm needs cleaning every 30 shots and shoots perfect from second shot.
Me and my mates must be very lucky then. And if you look into the subject a bit you will find that I am right, it is a fairly well known fact in the precision rifle circuit.
 
Was the bipod still on when you had it on the bags? Does it get anywhere near the barrel when folded up?

Can you number the shots on the target so we can see the groups of three...where they three tight groups just going to different POI or where all random across the main group.

Just a change of hold can alter the POI. @dodgyknees posted a really interesting pair of targets shot by him and his wife with the same rifle, same ammo and same conditions one after the other, and they were two tight groups but to two different POI which was an interesting example.

I always use a target with five rings on it so that each group is clearly shown and the relative points of impact can be compared.

The Average POI of the large group and the two on the other target look similar, so going by the Fuller group diagnosis, maybe that is the group you, your rifle with that ammo is capable of.

I have seen a lot worse at the range...

Alan
 
Am I missing something? Second target is a two shot touching group shot without the mod and the only group you’ve shot without the mod?

I’d be shooting some more groups without the mod to find out if they were two lucky shots or whether the mod is causing accuracy to drop off.
 
The Average POI of the large group and the two on the other target look similar, so going by the Fuller group diagnosis, maybe that is the group you, your rifle with that ammo is capable of.
Does Fuller's article not require an actual group (i.e. 10 or more shots) for analysis. The latest group on this thread seems to me to be an 11-round group shot on two targets, and is about 2". Not marvellous, but as Alan has, I too have seen worse.

This quotation from the article is useful:
The presence of three shots in a tight cluster in the centre of a group does not indicate a good rifle,
good ammunition or good shooting. It is mere chance and although such displays are constantly
occurring they should not mislead the marksman.

:)
 
Wonder if jimbo would like some targets for promotional purposes :D
Save his pain and do somthing for me please:

Print the below dot of doom free SD target and place at 100 yards. Then fire from any set-up you like, three shots from the your rifle as it arrives at the firing point. No warming shots etc. and from a dirty barrel if that's your thing.
Then post on here indicating the first shot.

Cheers

K
 
Am I missing something? Second target is a two shot touching group shot without the mod and the only group you’ve shot without the mod?

I’d be shooting some more groups without the mod to find out if they were two lucky shots or whether the mod is causing accuracy to drop off.
No I removed the mod to speed up cooling then refitted
 
Save his pain and do somthing for me please:

Print the below dot of doom free SD target and place at 100 yards. Then fire from any set-up you like, three shots from the your rifle as it arrives at the firing point. No warming shots etc. and from a dirty barrel if that's your thing.
Then post on here indicating the first shot.

Cheers

K
The first shot was top left .a dirty barrel is not my thing but trying different scenarios as trying to eliminate if the flyer was instigated by a just been cleaned barrel

Next two were in clover leaf fourth was in cloverleaf. Then they started to open up as barrel was getting hot
Thanks
 
If the grouping is opening up when the rifle gets warm then something is making contact (or you’re getting fatigued / starting to flinch).

1. Shoot some groups letting the rifle totally cool in between each shot.
2. Get someone else to shoot some groups with your rifle
 
The first shot was top left .a dirty barrel is not my thing but trying different scenarios as trying to eliminate if the flyer was instigated by a just been cleaned barrel

Next two were in clover leaf fourth was in cloverleaf. Then they started to open up as barrel was getting hot
Thanks
I wouldn't dream of calling into question your marksmanship but as another SD member very astutely observed, are you confident in ruling out the possibility "it is you that needs a chance to ‘warm up’ and not the rifle"?

K
 
Has any one mentioned parallax? I had a mate with a 2" average at 100, put a cheek piece on, altered the parallax and it went down by over half.
 
Has any one mentioned parallax? I had a mate with a 2" average at 100, put a cheek piece on, altered the parallax and it went down by over half.
And this just demonstrates the ever expanding variables when not actually being the nut behind the rifle in question. By which I mean did your mate first try a group with just the addition of a cheek peice for improved head to scope alignment before adjusting the parallex?

K
 
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