Thread: 3 shot groups are useless!

Originally Posted by Shearer

I suspect that hitting the 6" gong at 600 yards is 99% down to the shooters ability, not the rifles.

Indeed, which is a point that has been made repeatedly I think.

Originally Posted by gimp

It is also largely irrelevant for hunting, as I've noted before. As hunters we shoot at large targets at close ranges, mainly. The limiting factor is generally shooter proficiency, by far, not the fact that they are shooting a 1.5moa rifle (that averages .75 3 shot groups, in a slightly different spot each time).

However the converse is also true - for hunting it's irrelevant to have a ".x MOA rifle" so maybe we should stop claiming that with inadequate data

For those that wish to state that this subject is irrelevant to the average hunter who wishes to remain ignorant: Yes, we get that. The idea of having a "0.x MOA rifle" is also irrelevant to the average hunter however in practical application - it is inconsistent to want to make irrelevant statements around the precision of your rifle system, but not want to discuss the merits of the criteria used to arrive at that conclusion.