Thread: accurate rifles

The average American is pretty much like the average Kiwi.

Anyway, I've seen some pretty poor shooting lately and some of it has been mine.

Originally Posted by Gibo

I was refreshed when shooting beside Jas in Dannevirke. Pulls out the pack at 300 and nails the gong each shot. Nothing wrong with a bi pod but real hunting situations where they are usefull are few.

Yes it was good shooting, it's always easy on your own gongs........you no the winds, range, where to aim in what conditions it gets to easy.....
Different gongs on a different range and you realise how average you are


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Originally Posted by BRADS

Yes it was good shooting, it's always easy on your own gongs........you no the winds, range, where to aim in what conditions it gets to easy.....
Different gongs on a different range and you realise how average you are


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Excuses!

Originally Posted by Toby

Excuses!

Your just pissy cause first shot with your rocket launcher I smashed the gong you kept missing


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Originally Posted by mudgripz

"accuracy - the funniest one was a guy with a 1022 that shot a 2 inch group at 40 yards and thought it was really good"

That's pretty normal for a ruger ......

I used to have a Ruger 10/22 that would struggle to hit a 3 foot square from 50 yards, but my cheap norinco would hit a 1/2 inch circle on the same day. Still have the norinco / scrapped the Ruger.

Originally Posted by timattalon

I used to have a Ruger 10/22 that would struggle to hit a 3 foot square from 50 yards, but my cheap norinco would hit a 1/2 inch circle on the same day. Still have the norinco / scrapped the Ruger.

That's weird. I watched my missus shoot a myna bird at 30 mtrs in the head 2 mornings ago.. With sub sonic of course... 10/22 Ruger that's not been sighted in or cleaned for yonks ..
Must have got a good one ??

Originally Posted by 10-Ring

The average American is pretty much like the average Kiwi.

Anyway, I've seen some pretty poor shooting lately and some of it has been mine.

I started shooting small bore prone at 18, this year I started shooting non-prone in service rifle, Im ***** awful with a capital F and A, LOL.

The only way I'd kill a deer at more than 50m is if it laughed itself to death....

Originally Posted by Happy

That's weird. I watched my missus shoot a myna bird at 30 mtrs in the head 2 mornings ago.. With sub sonic of course... 10/22 Ruger that's not been sighted in or cleaned for yonks ..
Must have got a good one ??

My mate must have a good one too, I got a tidy 2 inch group at 100m. I thought that was ok considering it was a ruger

I've got a pretty accurate 1022, though mine cost me $700 used. Target barrel, target trigger, laminated stock etc. It was shocking at ejecting spent cases, so I fitted a hardened ejector claw that I got from Brownells. It is an absolute shitter with most ammo, and a darling with the right ammo. For instance it hates Winchester ammo (stove pipes, misfires every second round, spill shells everywhere when trying to clear misfired rounds, etc), but loves Winchester lasers. It works a treat with Remington Subs.

I use it with a night scope for rabbit killin', though I still have to dry fire it into the ground when I've finished shooting, (removed mag etc), and occasionally it goes-off, which really gets my goat. Probably need to clean the chamber more often for try different ammo.

I have never properly tested it's accuracy, but I've been folding rabbits at 80m in the dark, so it can't be that bad.

I hear that!
I used to shoot .22 prone indoor, from 12, and was ok. Fast forward a few years of not shooting ( including a bit of not so good for body or mind persuites) then back into shooting, and i couldn't hit a barn door at 19m... Getting better, but getting older certainly slows the learning rate
Or maybe i just over think things these days.....


Oh and i think i got got a good one, my 10/22, all standard apart from buffer by me (got some nylon rod that fitted), polishing most things roughly by me and a dremal, seems to shoot under a inch at 98m with cci subs and win power point. About 4 in with win subs and cci stingers - go figure, role reversal.

Now just need to find more cci subs........ ( and time to shoot )

Originally Posted by steven

I started shooting small bore prone at 18, this year I started shooting non-prone in service rifle, Im ***** awful with a capital F and A, LOL.

The only way I'd kill a deer at more than 50m is if it laughed itself to death....

i got a shit one cant even bring myself to sell it to some poor bastard my conscience would bug me

"About 4 in with win subs and cci stingers"

Ive not seen a thing that says these shoot well, in fact about the worst, sure they are knock out rounds, shooting barn doors maybe. Funnily enough as I went around the gunshops in Wellington looking for 22 first thing everyone tried to sell me were stingers, I dont think anyone wants them. I have 5 x 22LR rounds to try in the cmmg conversion kit in my AR15, I didnt get stingers...CCI seem pretty good ammo, I have 50 "std" to see how they do. Couldnt get velocitors however.

Originally Posted by northdude

i got a shit one cant even bring myself to sell it to some poor bastard my conscience would bug me

Yeah, don't you just hate that.
You can't even bring yourself to trade it with a decent gunshop owner.
I got a Marlin .22 magnum like that at the moment, not that it's not accurate, it is , when it fires, which is most of the time, then occasionally it has extraction problems as well .
Dammed if I know what to do with it.

Originally Posted by jakewire

Yeah, don't you just hate that.
You can't even bring yourself to trade it with a decent gunshop owner.
I got a Marlin .22 magnum like that at the moment, not that it's not accurate, it is , when it fires, which is most of the time, then occasionally it has extraction problems as well .
Dammed if I know what to do with it.

Biff it in a dam and forget you ever owned it.

That's strange my 22 marlin mag it the most accurate shooter I own.