Thread: 3 shot groups are useless!

Originally Posted by gimp

It's what you'd expect. A 1MOA target at longer ranges is terribly difficult to hit consistently if you are honest with yourself.

I fully agree it's a very tough challenge (to hit a 6" plate 3 times at 571M) but there are a lot of comments on here that cause me to doubt that people are honest with themselves and the internet about the capabilities of their rifle and themselves.

For example, a decent 3 shot group posted up on a plate at some "out there" distance, but the plate is quite big, and worse, the group isn't centered, if the group was placed on an deer it's gonna be gut-shot or something like it, and at longer range, seldom finished off.

Tahr shooting the same, many animals shot too far away, they can't be retrieved due to terrain, and if they are only wounded, they stay that way.