What's your secret for very tight groups?
I've found figuring "run out" to be one of the best answers for tight grouping. What's yours?
I've found figuring "run out" to be one of the best answers for tight grouping. What's yours?
Run out is pretty much a non factorWhat's your secret for very tight groups?
I've found figuring "run out" to be one of the best answers for tight grouping. What's yours?
I've found figuring "run out" to be one of the best answers for tight grouping.
Good sturdy bench. And a sturdy rest. Shooter relaxed and proper breathing. Good glass if using a scope. And accurate firearm as already mentioned.
That would be a trigger that has a crisp break with no creep or grit. The amount of break is entirely subjective to the shooter, however.
What is "run out" ?
Let somebody else shoot them for me
Really tiny groups come from a combination of variables all coming together.
My smallest ones have been shot with purpose built benchrest rifles, using ammunition made for the particular chamber, setting in/on good bags/rests, using 2oz triggers to not impart any movement into the rifle/rest pulling it and optics over 30x to aim with.
After that wind and compensation for it is the work.
FWIW I have had some ammunition that wound up with quite a bit of runout only to find it shot 3/8” 5 shot groups at 100 yards. What I found is that the bullet runout was corrected when the round was chambered. I just didn’t know it until I measured a round, then chambered and ejected it to check it again, that the rifle was correcting the issue.
Would certainly be a case for people that didn’t think it was a contributing factor at all, if they experienced the same.
My secret to one-hole groups is to shoot one-shot groups.
I suppose you could test a loose chamber by purposely cocking a bullet off ten thousandths and then seeing how much that throat will take out.