Thread: 3 shot groups are useless!

Here are some of my targets from last weekends Zuppa benchrest shoot, this is with my light varmint rifle (up to 10.5lbs)

You have seven minutes to shoot your score group with unlimited sighters, first group is 10 mins

This is all 5 shot groups with 6 PPC at 100 yards. measurements are thousands of an inch, there wasn't much wind at all, all weekend, we have 4 good flags to 100 so "know" what's going on...yeah right



Christ knows what happened in my first group, one just took off high, my neighbour was watching and couldn't understand how it happened either

The 0.88 & 0.146 were shot in the same condition, conditions clearly my rifle liked, I stuffed the 4th shot on the 0.146 otherwise it would have been closer to 0.88

Here are my groups at 200 yards, another two flags out to 200 so 6 flags in total & bugger all wind to talk about



For reference I came 4th out of 8 at 100 & 2nd at 200 placing me 2nd overall for light gun & I managed the same in heavy gun with a different rifle & 2nd over all for both which is the 2 gun, the main event

So what I'm getting at here is my light rifle & arguably my heavy rifle (which normally shoots better) are genuine 0.1 moa 5 shot rifles but only in the right conditions without an idiot driving them

Trust me when someone else (your partner) is driving the same rifles & loads & beating you, you figure out pretty quickly you aren't as good at shooting as she is

For what its worth I shot both these barrels for the first time at the nationals (the last shoot) with the same load & came 1st overall out of 15

Most of the time the rifle & load is good/great, shooting at the right time & conditions (that you can see) makes the difference

Comparing these rifles, rests etc to a hunting rifle is like comparing your Corolla to a F1 car

When you think about it, with all the variables, is incredible we can have two or more projectiles touching at 100 plus