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Shoulder Design Discussion?
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<blockquote data-quote="sable tireur" data-source="post: 1527109" data-attributes="member: 27307"><p>I think some of the previous statements from 2002 should be examined while keeping some perspective in mind. Current topics, information and technical developments have proceeded rapidly since this thread appeared originally. </p><p></p><p>It was not all that long ago it was assumed that factory hunting rifles should to be able to achieve 1", 3-shot accuracy from the top makers. Now those same makers are looking at 1/2", 3-shot groups as being necessary to keep the general public interested.</p><p></p><p>'Long Range' hunting, in the terms we think of today, would have been frowned upon </p><p>because it lacked the practice and significantly higher quality components which allow us to achieve such improvements in the longer distances we choose to shoot today. Combine this with the vast improvements in the glass and the configurations of the optics and you have some noticeable disparity. Best quality custom actions were relatively rare by comparison to what we all have access to today. Barrels, triggers, powders, bullets, muzzle brakes and heaven forbid, suppressors! Look how far we have progressed in what I thinks has been a fairly short period of time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sable tireur, post: 1527109, member: 27307"] I think some of the previous statements from 2002 should be examined while keeping some perspective in mind. Current topics, information and technical developments have proceeded rapidly since this thread appeared originally. It was not all that long ago it was assumed that factory hunting rifles should to be able to achieve 1", 3-shot accuracy from the top makers. Now those same makers are looking at 1/2", 3-shot groups as being necessary to keep the general public interested. 'Long Range' hunting, in the terms we think of today, would have been frowned upon because it lacked the practice and significantly higher quality components which allow us to achieve such improvements in the longer distances we choose to shoot today. Combine this with the vast improvements in the glass and the configurations of the optics and you have some noticeable disparity. Best quality custom actions were relatively rare by comparison to what we all have access to today. Barrels, triggers, powders, bullets, muzzle brakes and heaven forbid, suppressors! Look how far we have progressed in what I thinks has been a fairly short period of time. [/QUOTE]
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