Thread: Finally getting set up

The 3-shot vs bigger group thing is a good bar room argument over a pint. Yeah, bigger groups provide more stats and are generally more reliable but for the average bloke in NZ and in reality a group is useless for ethical hunting purposes.

We need to know where the first shot goes, regardless of bore temp, state of cleanliness, weather conditions, lighting and ammo temp. If your rifle takes two shots to settle into perfect 3/4" groups bang on all day, that's great but if those first two are sheet of A4 down and right at 100m (and I had one rifle that did this) - then that's likely a miss at 300m and it's not much use having to fire two possible misses to get the 3rd and 1st of your 3/4" group on target. It's also not much use having a 10-round mag with a rifle that only spits two to point of aim then shifts to a repeatable POI much higher up and left...