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Back story, as you may know, I love shooting itty bitty groups. It bugs mean when I cant get a rifle in the .5 MOA range at 100 yards.
I am in Georgia and deer season is starting this weekend. So my coworkers all know I am a gun nut, and several have asked me to take them to the range to get their rifles "truly" zeroed. I guess me talking about guns and shooting made them lose confidence in their equipment. That made me feel bad since I do not want to discourage anyone from shooting.
So anyway, guys come out, I let them shoot my customs rifles, that are already dialed in, to build confidence in their shooting ability. Then we move over to their guns. I get two coworkers shooting right at an inch for 3 shot groups. One was a nice AR in 6.5G and the other was an RAR in .30-06. A lot of silly errors on their part, such as lifting their head off the rifle after every shot, resting the barrel on the rest instead of the forend, loose scope mounts, not understanding parallex, etc. We get it all sorted out and get them shooting.
Another coworker has a beautiful Remington 700 BDL in .30-06 from 1981. It has a Nikon Monarch 7, 30mm tube, SFP. Ammo is the hornardy superformance 180 grain SST. We shoot the rifle and its grouping 3-4 inches at 100 yards consistently. It has a steel butt plate, literally a 7lb trigger (new xmark after the recall, remington installed), and my coworker for life of him, could not get comfortable off the rest on the bench.
So immediate fix, get trigger work done and recoil pad installed. Had a local gunsmith install a really nice recoil pad, lower the trigger down to 3lbs, torqued action into the wood stock to spec, and did a deep clean on the barrel. Took my coworker shooting yesterday. Same ammo, from the same lot number, front bean bag rest, nothing supporting the rear of the stock.
We shot 4 x 3 shot groups. Largest group was 2.5 inches, smallest was a tad over 1 inch. Average for all 4 groups was 2.10. We took his last 8 rounds and shot a 4 inch steel gong at 100 and then 200 yards. He got center of mass hits on the plate at both distances. He connected on all 8 shots.
Sorry, for the long rant. I guess, I am asking will this rifle work for georgia deer hunting? I feel like I did him a disservice, because my expectation was at least 1 MOA. He also, kept asking if his rifle will get the job done at 200 yards after hitting the plate at that distance. Which I attributed his question to a lack of confidence in his equipment issue. Whats your guy's opinion on this? What do you think is acceptable accuracy? Did I not set him up for success? I think my OCD is getting the better of me...lol.
I am in Georgia and deer season is starting this weekend. So my coworkers all know I am a gun nut, and several have asked me to take them to the range to get their rifles "truly" zeroed. I guess me talking about guns and shooting made them lose confidence in their equipment. That made me feel bad since I do not want to discourage anyone from shooting.
So anyway, guys come out, I let them shoot my customs rifles, that are already dialed in, to build confidence in their shooting ability. Then we move over to their guns. I get two coworkers shooting right at an inch for 3 shot groups. One was a nice AR in 6.5G and the other was an RAR in .30-06. A lot of silly errors on their part, such as lifting their head off the rifle after every shot, resting the barrel on the rest instead of the forend, loose scope mounts, not understanding parallex, etc. We get it all sorted out and get them shooting.
Another coworker has a beautiful Remington 700 BDL in .30-06 from 1981. It has a Nikon Monarch 7, 30mm tube, SFP. Ammo is the hornardy superformance 180 grain SST. We shoot the rifle and its grouping 3-4 inches at 100 yards consistently. It has a steel butt plate, literally a 7lb trigger (new xmark after the recall, remington installed), and my coworker for life of him, could not get comfortable off the rest on the bench.
So immediate fix, get trigger work done and recoil pad installed. Had a local gunsmith install a really nice recoil pad, lower the trigger down to 3lbs, torqued action into the wood stock to spec, and did a deep clean on the barrel. Took my coworker shooting yesterday. Same ammo, from the same lot number, front bean bag rest, nothing supporting the rear of the stock.
We shot 4 x 3 shot groups. Largest group was 2.5 inches, smallest was a tad over 1 inch. Average for all 4 groups was 2.10. We took his last 8 rounds and shot a 4 inch steel gong at 100 and then 200 yards. He got center of mass hits on the plate at both distances. He connected on all 8 shots.
Sorry, for the long rant. I guess, I am asking will this rifle work for georgia deer hunting? I feel like I did him a disservice, because my expectation was at least 1 MOA. He also, kept asking if his rifle will get the job done at 200 yards after hitting the plate at that distance. Which I attributed his question to a lack of confidence in his equipment issue. Whats your guy's opinion on this? What do you think is acceptable accuracy? Did I not set him up for success? I think my OCD is getting the better of me...lol.
