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Section 4: Guns/General Subject: Shooting Groups Msg# 897843
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Honest, I didn't write those letters to the editor... But I agree with them.
Wasting rounds chasing the center of a target??? Why bother developing a load to shoot a tight group of misses? I see no purpose in that. If you miss what you're aiming at then you missed. What difference does it make that your misses are close together? Isn't the purpose of a gun to put a bullet where you want it? Hasn't the holy grail of shooting always been being able to smack any target in range dead center, no matter what? Drop that squirrel/moose/antelope/assailant with one shot - not "I finally got these two loads perfected; this one shoots six MOA to the left of where I'm aiming and that one shoots four MOA to the right!" Why, if that was our goal we would barely have become fluent in Comanche and Sioux before we had to learn Spanish, and then German and Japanese... (this is really fun Uncle Stu...) |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: What's the point of the exercise? If it is to verify zero on a rifle, as before hunting season or some competition, that's one thing. If it's just to develop a good, tight-shooting load, then it is unnecessary and even counter-productive (in that you're wasting some of those development rounds just to chase the center of the target). I've seen letters to the editor of magazines complaining that the groups shown were never centered on target, so were meaningless. Certainly not true if making comparative groups is your aim. It's also possible for point of impact to wander as the weather or the barrel heats up. For checking on that, you can't be adjusting the sights to center after every group or you'll lose the very info you're looking for! Doesn't seem odd at all to me. Stu |
