Thread: Accuracy is Relative

Gidday Coote - yep you have the right idea. I shoot a bit of FTR class and NRA style (not all that well it has to be said, but I get my share of "possibles") , along with as much hunting as I can scrounge time away from job/home for (and have been for over 40 years now).

Some of my hunting rifles shoot pretty good (under the very magic 1" mark that is supposed to be the only the sort of accuracy that will guarantee a deer to faint from fright at 500 metres) but my favorites are nowhere near as good - but as long as they are somewhere around 2" or a bit better I'm happy at all practical ranges (for me about 350M max).

A hell of a lot of the guys who shoot at long range don't admit their first (or second or third) shot misses, but if you look at the video's they post up its usually pretty apparent whats happened - I see this time and time again especially on Tahr shooting vids. Thats cause the Tahr don't know how to judge group size*, so they don't care that the shooter can't read wind across a big gully or basin - shooting itty bitty groups in known wind conditions on a range with a decent flat position and no dead ground out to the target is easy in comparison!

So - no need to feel inadequet by anything anyone posts on the interweb!

* The fact that tahr don't care about group sizes was pointed out to me by one of the blokes who went on the early OFTH (old farts tahr hunt) that used to be organised on the other forum - turned out to be very wise advice eh @nor-west (who it has to be said can shoot itty bitty groups from a hell of a lot of his rifles)