Cleaning During Ammo Testing
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I will have to rerun my testing for sure to check this out, I've switched over to shooting Eley force pretty much for everything, but I got tons of mini mags and CCI AR tactical, I would be curious on how the accuracy is affected from an ammo switch back to Eley force.
As for shooting at 50 vs 100 yards, it's not just a shooters positional inconsistencies or trigger breaking that contribute to errant shots.
Just rest your rifle on the target and without touching the rifle, watch the target move through the scope as mirage refracts and makes the target appear to move from one place to another.
Watch where it goes in intermittent cloud cover when the cloud is over the range and when it clears up and the sun comes through again. Sometimes in heavy mirage it vibrates quickly and unpredictably.
Remember, lights up sights up, lights down sights down... but that assumes the sun is directly above. In reality such refraction occurs either away from or toward the sun. So if the sun is low in the sky, refraction occurs toward or away from the sun, not always up or down.
The closer you are to the target, the less this will occur.
When shooting farther out, I will sometimes place a 24x scope on a one piece tripod spiked into the ground to have a consistent relative position to where the target appears to be at any given time. I use this as a spotting scope between shots and always aim for where the cross hairs appear to have moved relative to the target, not always just at the target.
This alone can account for one MOA.
If you ever go to an F Class match you can watch it like synchronized swimming as everyone gets V after V then suddenly all start getting low 5s, then back to V's for a while, then everyone gets a high 5, then back to Vs... Except the few who understand the above and have the guts to take the leap of faith and hold off for the light changes. It's the same for small bore.
Just rest your rifle on the target and without touching the rifle, watch the target move through the scope as mirage refracts and makes the target appear to move from one place to another.
Watch where it goes in intermittent cloud cover when the cloud is over the range and when it clears up and the sun comes through again. Sometimes in heavy mirage it vibrates quickly and unpredictably.
Remember, lights up sights up, lights down sights down... but that assumes the sun is directly above. In reality such refraction occurs either away from or toward the sun. So if the sun is low in the sky, refraction occurs toward or away from the sun, not always up or down.
The closer you are to the target, the less this will occur.
When shooting farther out, I will sometimes place a 24x scope on a one piece tripod spiked into the ground to have a consistent relative position to where the target appears to be at any given time. I use this as a spotting scope between shots and always aim for where the cross hairs appear to have moved relative to the target, not always just at the target.
This alone can account for one MOA.
If you ever go to an F Class match you can watch it like synchronized swimming as everyone gets V after V then suddenly all start getting low 5s, then back to V's for a while, then everyone gets a high 5, then back to Vs... Except the few who understand the above and have the guts to take the leap of faith and hold off for the light changes. It's the same for small bore.
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