Thread: Trying to be a bit precise

Originally Posted by Larrygoat

Great feedback do far guys, many thanks. I'm pretty sure I'm in the stone age compared to most of you, I had always been a "hunter" and not much of a shooter and haven't gone down this road before. The projectiles are exactly "two layers of green masking tape" off the lands, which fits in the mag fine. I was shooting off my Remington bipod while lying on a ute tray cover on the wet grass with my jacket rolled up under the stock, this was my attempt to take myself out of the equation as much as possible while shooting.

As far as mounting, I am no pro, but I was confident in how I did it, degreased and thread locked everything except for top half of rings (warne30mm rings leupold rail), I did not lap the rings, but I did make sure they were pushed forward onto the rail to prevent them moving under recoil and sat the scope on there before final tighten.

My next trip out to the farm I'll try a couple of things,

More data on 3 shot groups.
7-10 shot groups.

I'll hopefully come back to this thread with photos to get some help from you guys to "decode" results.

There may be some inputs on my end that may be impacting results, shoulder reconstructions have me a bit "soft"

Anything else you guys recommend?

Greetings Larrygoat,
I think you are most of the way there. You are zeroing at 200 metres and form a prone rest much the same as you would use in the field. A realistic accuracy in those conditions would be about 1 MoA which you are achieving. Your 17 mm group is from good technique aided by luck. Don't expect that sort of accuracy each time. Every time you lie down to shoot some things will be different, no matter how hard you try, and the point of impact will be slightly different. If you can keep your groups in a 50 mm circle at 200 metres, centered on your aiming point, you are ready to hunt. No need to chase rainbows. The one thing I would Suggest is to adjust your scope for parallax by moving your head from side to side until the cross hairs stop moving across the target rather than using the markings. Other than that you are good to go.
Regards Grandpamac.