Thread: The Howikka Test Bed

One thing to consider @Roarless20 is this a 223, and it can be a highly variable sort of beast, once you start shooting decent sample sizes the "surprises" happen. There is none of the "I pulled one" bullshit that so many people indulge themselves with in the following targets, they are a product of careful shooting.

Both shot with the same rifle at 100M in pretty similar weather conditions, just a wee breeze from 6 o'clock. The scope was changed out between targets and obviously the zero also varies.



Pretty interesting how on the 28/2 (group 1) with Hor 73s it shot 1.04 MOA but on 10/3 the group with the load was 66mm and the worse group of the day.

If you have a look at the 28/2 target you can see the rifle shot 3 consecutive groups (shot count varied 9 to 11) of which the largest was 1.08 MOA. And then a splatter from some FMJ stuff (which incidentally does go OK in another rifle).

There seem to be a lot of shooters too scared to fully explore the variability of their shooting system, it's maybe less important for hunting, but it's also less than usefull not to know the limitations of your rifle, especially with the current "long range" fashion.