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<blockquote data-quote="Murtfree" data-source="post: 3027475" data-attributes="member: 111090"><p>This takes me to a problem I had shooting light weight magnum rifles ie, 6.5lbs and under. I never had much problem shooting my heavy bench rifles into one ragged hole but those light weights seldom got below 1 inch. Last year I began doing a lot of dry firing and I noticed that the crosshairs of my scope may move up to an inch off my target center after the firing pin dropped. I guess the weight of the firing pin/spring movement was a greater portion of the total rifle weight than it was in a 14 lb bench rifle. After I learned a better hold and the crosshairs stayed exactly where I placed them before the firing pin dropped, my groups shrank into the 1/2 to 3/4 range. I made the assumption that the slight movement from the weight of the firing pin shifted where the barrel pointed prior to the bullet leaving the barrel, since it occurred at primer ignition.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Murtfree, post: 3027475, member: 111090"] This takes me to a problem I had shooting light weight magnum rifles ie, 6.5lbs and under. I never had much problem shooting my heavy bench rifles into one ragged hole but those light weights seldom got below 1 inch. Last year I began doing a lot of dry firing and I noticed that the crosshairs of my scope may move up to an inch off my target center after the firing pin dropped. I guess the weight of the firing pin/spring movement was a greater portion of the total rifle weight than it was in a 14 lb bench rifle. After I learned a better hold and the crosshairs stayed exactly where I placed them before the firing pin dropped, my groups shrank into the 1/2 to 3/4 range. I made the assumption that the slight movement from the weight of the firing pin shifted where the barrel pointed prior to the bullet leaving the barrel, since it occurred at primer ignition. [/QUOTE]
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