There is more to this group than meets the eye! At first it appears to be a pretty awesome 3 shot group at 100 yards, however... this .345" group was shot at 200 yards out of a lightweight hunting rifle....by 2 separate shooters! I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't been there as shooter #2!
My brother in law recently picked up a new Browning Hells Canyon Speed in 6.8 Western. For this particular session he was testing seating depth with the Sierra 175 TMKs. 5 different seating depths at 200 yards produced 4 groups sub 1/2 MOA and 1 that was 3/4 MOA. We had a variable light breeze, and chrono stats were single digit SDs and ESs under 20. He is running a 12x Trijicon Huron scope with no side parallax adj. as this gun is meant to be a high country backpacking rifle.
He had been working through his test loads while I was checking dope on a 338 WM, and having some 1k fun with my 7RM. Between barrel coolings he shot my guns some, then offered to let me shoot the last round out of his new rifle. I was excited to try it out, and surprised when he told me I needed to shoot the 3rd shot in the group he had started! He hadn't looked at it through the spotter and didn't know what he already had. My shot felt good and he went to collect the big cardboard target with orange sticker dots we were shooting at while I started packing up our gear. He came back pretty excited and we still can't believe it! Maybe this happens more often for other people, but this is a group I would be excited about at 100 yards, let alone 200 from 2 shooters!
Happy Shooting!
My brother in law recently picked up a new Browning Hells Canyon Speed in 6.8 Western. For this particular session he was testing seating depth with the Sierra 175 TMKs. 5 different seating depths at 200 yards produced 4 groups sub 1/2 MOA and 1 that was 3/4 MOA. We had a variable light breeze, and chrono stats were single digit SDs and ESs under 20. He is running a 12x Trijicon Huron scope with no side parallax adj. as this gun is meant to be a high country backpacking rifle.
He had been working through his test loads while I was checking dope on a 338 WM, and having some 1k fun with my 7RM. Between barrel coolings he shot my guns some, then offered to let me shoot the last round out of his new rifle. I was excited to try it out, and surprised when he told me I needed to shoot the 3rd shot in the group he had started! He hadn't looked at it through the spotter and didn't know what he already had. My shot felt good and he went to collect the big cardboard target with orange sticker dots we were shooting at while I started packing up our gear. He came back pretty excited and we still can't believe it! Maybe this happens more often for other people, but this is a group I would be excited about at 100 yards, let alone 200 from 2 shooters!
Happy Shooting!