Thread: Obtaining more information from your groups - overlaying groups

Originally Posted by McNotty

One thing all this highlights to me is that long range shooting for a lot of people is very hit and miss, and probably unethical, excuse the pun. Out past 400 - 500, things must be very sketchy if you don’t have an accurate rifle (by large group size standards). Obviously some people must get lucky and have an accurate system without doing the testing, but even I look back at some shots that were too high or too low or too far back and realise it may not have been shooter error or atmospheric and was actually just the bullet going to the edge of the cone of fire at that point in time. Correct assumption?

Yes, although I don't think that rifle precision is often the biggest driver of low hit probability - but having a poor understanding of your precision and your zero leads to real difficulty in attributing error to the correct source.