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<blockquote data-quote="devildoc" data-source="post: 292815" data-attributes="member: 5615"><p>Hard to tell until you do some shooting with em'. The trouble with starting out is that you are ill equiped to evaluate where your sources of inaccuracy actually are. The all important question is whether you are capable of shooting your rifle so that you approach the capability of the rifle. Hopefully you have some sort of mentor that might be able to evaluate your equipment for you. </p><p></p><p>I can tell you that as I've progressed in this game, I've discovered that a great deal of my group size when shooting off a bipod, sandbags or field rest has been a result of operator error. And that's true if it's a factory rifle or a fully blueprinted custom. And to make things worse I think that the inaccuracies of the rifle and the inaccuracies of your ability to shoot it are not additive, they're probably exponential. For instance if you have a 0.5 MOA rifle being shot by a 2 MOA shooter on the given rest, the group will probably be significantly greater than 2.5 MOA even at relatively short ranges, and especially at longer ranges. </p><p></p><p>This complicates matters quite a bit because a newby to the discipline probably doesn't have the equipment available to him to properly evaluate his shooting iron seperately from his shooting skill. This fact makes it nearly impossible to evaluate either the equipment or your skill. </p><p></p><p>Most quality factory rifles with good ammunition will be able to shoot between 1-2 MOA. Probably a significant percentage of those are capable of shooting significantly better than that. However, if you are not absolutely sure that you can shoot relatvely close to the rifle's potential during your testing, you're not gonna have any idea whether that 3" group at 100 yds was due to you, the inherent accuracy of the rifle or some weak link within your system such as poor fit, loose bases/rings, bad scope etc. The only solution to that problem is to have a mentor who has the equipment and the skill to evaluate your equipment for you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="devildoc, post: 292815, member: 5615"] Hard to tell until you do some shooting with em'. The trouble with starting out is that you are ill equiped to evaluate where your sources of inaccuracy actually are. The all important question is whether you are capable of shooting your rifle so that you approach the capability of the rifle. Hopefully you have some sort of mentor that might be able to evaluate your equipment for you. I can tell you that as I've progressed in this game, I've discovered that a great deal of my group size when shooting off a bipod, sandbags or field rest has been a result of operator error. And that's true if it's a factory rifle or a fully blueprinted custom. And to make things worse I think that the inaccuracies of the rifle and the inaccuracies of your ability to shoot it are not additive, they're probably exponential. For instance if you have a 0.5 MOA rifle being shot by a 2 MOA shooter on the given rest, the group will probably be significantly greater than 2.5 MOA even at relatively short ranges, and especially at longer ranges. This complicates matters quite a bit because a newby to the discipline probably doesn't have the equipment available to him to properly evaluate his shooting iron seperately from his shooting skill. This fact makes it nearly impossible to evaluate either the equipment or your skill. Most quality factory rifles with good ammunition will be able to shoot between 1-2 MOA. Probably a significant percentage of those are capable of shooting significantly better than that. However, if you are not absolutely sure that you can shoot relatvely close to the rifle's potential during your testing, you're not gonna have any idea whether that 3" group at 100 yds was due to you, the inherent accuracy of the rifle or some weak link within your system such as poor fit, loose bases/rings, bad scope etc. The only solution to that problem is to have a mentor who has the equipment and the skill to evaluate your equipment for you. [/QUOTE]
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