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why does the barrel get the credit?
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<blockquote data-quote="Greyfox" data-source="post: 896891" data-attributes="member: 10291"><p>In my view, in very high precision bench rest shooting the barrel ends up getting the main focus for some legitimate reasons and this gets extrapolated to other forms of shooting for less legitimate reasons. In Benchrest shooting, the very heavy rifle is placed in a rest with little if any body contact except for the tip of the finger touching a very light trigger. Distances are known, flags are set along the line, and most all the remaining technologies like stock bedding, action squaring, scopes, loads etc. are well understood. The skill component on the part of the shooter and the aforementioned aspects while important, are aspects that quickly become a lower priority than the higher complexity level of the barrel. When groups in the 1's and 2's change, it invariably gets proven that the barrel is the reason. It doesn't mean the other aspects aren't important, but statisicly the barrel is the variable. As you start to place more variables in the mix, like F- class does, heavier triggers, changing positions, heavier calibers, hard holds, etc, the influence of the barrel for success, while still important, is far less, and other variables like shooting skills, and scope capability play a greater role for success. Because of this, a factory barrel can win against the best custom barrel because of factors other than the barrel/precision level. There is little chance of this happening in bench rest competition. This can be even more pronounced when you look at long range hunting where the variables for success increase even further. I think starting out with the best accuracy as possible in any form of shooting should be the goal, but in reality that high level of precision can be negated by other factors depending on what kind of shooting you are doing. IMO.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greyfox, post: 896891, member: 10291"] In my view, in very high precision bench rest shooting the barrel ends up getting the main focus for some legitimate reasons and this gets extrapolated to other forms of shooting for less legitimate reasons. In Benchrest shooting, the very heavy rifle is placed in a rest with little if any body contact except for the tip of the finger touching a very light trigger. Distances are known, flags are set along the line, and most all the remaining technologies like stock bedding, action squaring, scopes, loads etc. are well understood. The skill component on the part of the shooter and the aforementioned aspects while important, are aspects that quickly become a lower priority than the higher complexity level of the barrel. When groups in the 1's and 2's change, it invariably gets proven that the barrel is the reason. It doesn't mean the other aspects aren't important, but statisicly the barrel is the variable. As you start to place more variables in the mix, like F- class does, heavier triggers, changing positions, heavier calibers, hard holds, etc, the influence of the barrel for success, while still important, is far less, and other variables like shooting skills, and scope capability play a greater role for success. Because of this, a factory barrel can win against the best custom barrel because of factors other than the barrel/precision level. There is little chance of this happening in bench rest competition. This can be even more pronounced when you look at long range hunting where the variables for success increase even further. I think starting out with the best accuracy as possible in any form of shooting should be the goal, but in reality that high level of precision can be negated by other factors depending on what kind of shooting you are doing. IMO. [/QUOTE]
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