I live on an acreage and I shoot from my deck and my yard has a decent shelterbelt. Since I shoot from home I can shoot almost any time, I scan the weather forecasts for some calm days and try to take advantage of them. I cannot eliminate wind from the equation but I do try to minimize it.
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I live on an acreage and I shoot from my deck and my yard has a decent shelterbelt. Since I shoot from home I can shoot almost any time, I scan the weather forecasts for some calm days and try to take advantage of them. I cannot eliminate wind from the equation but I do try to minimize it.
I am going to have to go and reshoot everything on the shelf. There is no clear winner so far.
American Eagle is not the best but it is interesting. At $4.50 a box it is one of the cheapest, it averages 1/2", a few to 3/4" and some to the .2s and .3s.
I went to my local gun store and asked about different lots of Midas+ and they had a brick of a different lot number, picked up a box and I will see if it makes a difference.
The weather forecast says wind in the 5 to 10 k for the next couple of days, will see what happens.
What ammo is giving you the best results so far? Surely it is not HV American Eagle.
A scope such as the one used doesn't have the magnification that shooters who regularly shoot the smallest groups use -- except for a few anomalies on the 1/2" challenge in this forum.
It is simply very difficult to shoot consistent small groups with a relatively low powered scope. BR shooters use 36X and more magnification.
Here's what a USBR target 50 yards away looks like at 16X
At 24X
At 36X
Shooting the competition targets shown, I can see where a high magnification scope would be essential.
For a target I use a square, not on a side but up on a corner. This lets me line the cross hairs up with the corners.
I wish I wasn't such a dinosaur, and then I could post pics. Some of this computer stuff is beyond me.
