Thread: 3 shot groups are useless!

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

a year or tw oago a forum member "royal twelve" got online as he was having trouble shooting any sort of group...
seen as though he was local to me,I organised to meet him at unofficial local spot suitable to fire rifle..his suggestion of location..driving there I thought to self..I dont know this person and are driving to meet him with rifle in wagon..dodgy much??
anyway first up I got him to fire my 7.62x39mm with subsonic load...just cause I could and he worried about flinch... then fired a super,no problem.
next gave him my .223 and he got down on mound to shoot.."uumm what are you doing hugging yourself?" was my comment when his left hand went onto toe of stock..."hold the bloody stock like its meant to be"..he dutifly did so and proceeded to shoot a tiny under inch group of 6 rounds (all my rifle holds) at hundred yards...... whats this got to do with anything you ask?? those six rounds.....were randoms from my ammo drawer 4 different loads between 50-55grns young Jasper went away now KNOWING he could shoot well.shooting how he had been with his .22magnum his groups were closer to 3" in size
mission accomplished he KNEW he could do it and soon after reported doing so with his .308 no worries.
SOME rifles are like this and at hundy will poke all sorts of loads into same group..all be it a weird shaped group...my old 270 put ten different loads into playing card sized group...it always did it....seems the howa does the same.

Hey MD, one of the main reasons I'm persevering with the B14 223 is that it throws everything I've put through it at near enough to point of aim at 100 to easily take wallabies and goats to 250M. Meaning I can use any ammo (with a suitable projectile) for a lot of hunting. Do you (MD I mean) recall your comment on its early 3 shot groups, yes they were pretty poor, but aggregated with other ammo at least there was still a group of sorts - call it minute of wallaby.

It's now shooting 10 shot groups very close to MOA, and I'm sure I'll Crack it (consistently) in due course. And then if I chose I can legitimately sell it as "an accurate rifle, shooting MOA"