Outdoored wrote:I get great groups using the factory ammo (hornandy) at 100, so if I can match that, I'll be meeting my goal.....5 shot 1 inch groups is more than sufficient for my uses....which are shots out to 150 on hogs and whitetail........maybe.....maybe when I learn the ballistics and pair it with my Leupy ballistic reticle on the thumper I will try for farther distances......but I have my ARP 6.8 for that.....as well as the trusty 2506, .270, 3006, and .300.
You just can't have too many rifles........
Just noticing something you said about one-holers. Think about that for a second..a "one holer" in a 45cal!! This thing of ours is really quite incredible, one hole groups!! Does the 45-70 do this? I think not. And we nose out the 45-70, in any category you care to compare.
We have come to expect this "One-Hole" Phenomenon. I can remember Gun-Rag articles (I bet you've read them too), written in the near past, extolling the Holy-Grail as being a one inch (1) group, and we do that normally, now don't we? Yet we have become sort of Blasé about such matters. But thinking it over, HOLY COW, 1 moa and a Steam-Roller to boot!!
Hoot? What is the best accuracy you've gotten to-date? When I am actually trying for group size I will always see 1 MOA +-.
I have seen sub .5 MOA, but this is unusual and is about as common 3moa, which 3moa is my usual outside "Blown Group" size and is still 9" at three hundred (300) yards (shooting an 18" heart/lung area of a adult deer), with PLENTY of residue power to decide any issue at that range and this size group (3" @ 100yds) is quite unusual. Heck! I can pull the shot, yielding 20MOA @ 100yds and still bowl-over a whitetail!
Now, I don't want to admit it, but I have blown the shot, on a running whitetail and hit the animal through the Quarter-Panels at something in the 225yd area and Bowled-Over the animal. Shooting for the heart/lung area and hitting the rear legs? What is that, a miss of about 25" or so. That's about a moa of what, 56.25 MOA and it still killed the animal,
immediately!! Now, I'm not saying to do any of this, but it points up the possibilities, even when I screw-up..
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