Colt HBAR Competition Accuracy Expectations

I shoot/carry a Colt 14.5 inch non-free-floated barrel. With 55gr training ammo. About 2 inches at 100 (5 rds) with a dialed-down Eotech. 3 to 3.5 inches with BUIS. Thats about as good as I can do without breaking the bank by constantly shooting on my own dime.

With match grade ammo and a heavy comp barrel. I would do a little better. Maybe by an inch?
I'd really like to try though.
 
With match ammo that works well in your gun and from a sandbagged rest, you should be able to get sub-MOA. Both my Colt HBar will do that. Sometimes I can get lucky groups of 0.7 but then other times the groups are over an inch.
 
I'm looking at one of my targets right now. Its 10 shots fired at about 5 seconds or less per shot (plus a mag change), it measures 1.055". Excluding one shot that was a bit high it would have measured .895" for 9 shots. The ammunition was handloads, 60 gr Sierra HP over 23 gr of WC845 in Winchester brass.
 
I have two Colts 20" Hbars in 1:7 and they are the best shooting barrels out of the eight I have. I think they will hold their own against the best match barrels out there.
 
Mine goes under 1.00" with selected factory ammo and all of my handloads . Handloads average .750" and i think that a good shooter could carve a quarter off that as i've done it often enough but not consistantly . AE 50 grainers , fmj's are the most accuarate factory i've found , for my particular rifle and i've tried just about everything .
 
shredder said:
It will shoot less than 1MOA easily if YOU can!!!!
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And HE definitely can.

Welcome to the AR club Jason. I have one Colt Match Hbar, and a colt Sporter. You can definitely feel the weight of the HBar over the sporter. While I am not that good, Dad who uses the Hbar does real good with it with open sites. Open sites don't work that well with me. We really haven't found a consistent supply of any ammo so let me know what yours likes and we'll give it a try.
 
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