Thread: Rifle and reloaded ammo accuracy

Originally Posted by Friwi

Me to. Some rifle might shoot the three first shots tight and then start to open up. Or might have the first shot cold at one spot and the two next shot touching somewhere else 1" or 2" apart from the first shot. And after further testings the same pattern might keep on repeating itself again and again. So the same trend with 3 shot in these cases where enough to show what the rifle does. All 5 shots would do is show you how wide ( or tight) the group is for 5 shots.
And to my eyes,when hunting, I want to know where my first bullet is going to hit and what my second bullet will do. If you need five shots on an animal, maybe should have not taken the first shot at all...

Then overlay the patterns your rifle shoots and when you see the group that your first three shots, on each pattern, makes that is the limit of accuracy of your rifle.
No rifle will put its first three shots in the same place every time.

I'd do 5 shots 5 minutes apart for a 5 shot cold bore group. Then there would be less "three times lucky, look I've got a half moa rifle"

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