Yesterday a friend and I sighted in a new rifle for another friend, sort of a spur of the moment thing. He was working, knew we were headed out and asked us to sight in his new gun. My buddy got the gun shooting pretty good at 100 yards. I took the gun and fired three times and every one of my shots were low by 2" and right slightly. He took the gun back and fired three shots that were all POA. We were resting on the hood of a pickup.
Is it how we hold the gun and align the scope? The gun was a brand new 270 but I won't mention the name of the gun or scope because that shouldn't be relevant. It was a rather cheap combo package so I wouldn't necessarily expect perfection anyway. The box of shells he gave us were Winchester, I think 135 grain but that really shouldn't matter either since his shots grouped ok and mine grouped ok. We weren't looking to shoot a gnat but just get it close so the guy could take it this weekend and it would already be "sighted in".
Is it how we hold the gun and align the scope? The gun was a brand new 270 but I won't mention the name of the gun or scope because that shouldn't be relevant. It was a rather cheap combo package so I wouldn't necessarily expect perfection anyway. The box of shells he gave us were Winchester, I think 135 grain but that really shouldn't matter either since his shots grouped ok and mine grouped ok. We weren't looking to shoot a gnat but just get it close so the guy could take it this weekend and it would already be "sighted in".