Field accuracy. What's your's?
- Thread starter Rayleigh_Scattering
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If I have no miss from 0 to 300m on Fig11, I’m a happy camper
This is my accuracy standard also. Not pinpoint accuracy but consistent and good enough
I can be more accurate, but my field accuracy is Fig11 at [insert distance] reliably
I have shot in that scenario many, many times... hike down a mountain at speed, cross a river, sprint up opposite mountain, throw pack over a Boulder, check range, settle into rifle, take three deep breaths, calm breathing, and squeeze... 430 yard goat, 350 yard black bear, 420 yard WT buck, 440 yard bull moose etc... BUT, the VAST majority of my shots have been inside 30 yards with archery gear... and as close as 2 yards. If I CAN get closer, I DO get closer. Sometimes it just cannot be done, and that is why we practice and prepare.
LongBomber
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Prone off a pack or off a bipod, somewhere within 1/2” of poi at 100y. Off-hand I used to hold about a 3” 5 shot group at 100, now its more like a 8” group. Heart pills give me the shacks, shooting off a rest its ok but unsupported has gone all to heck!
We completed PWT Level 3 & 4 for deployments. Not a cake walk. PWT 3 was starting at 400m, targets up for 45 seconds. Run like hell to 300m engage targets X2 3 hits each, Run to 200m etc down to 50m with different shooting positions/number of shots. So in your scenario I'm not thinking targets & bullseye, but the deer/moose/bear/elk would certainly be dead with the guys I hunt with.
About 3"; mostly because many of my rifles are sighted in that way.
Sighted in 3" high?
Sitting, and using my pack as a rest, I would expect to be able to keep my shots within a 2" circle shooting at a paper target at 100m.
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Its a very common method of sighting in for open country. Most any big game rifle worth loading is good for zero to 300 yards with a center hold and not a thought given to range up to that point. Top of the back makes it to 400. Relics from the black powder era need not apply.
These days people usually refer to it as the MPBR method (Maximum Point Blank Range), but "3 high", and the "Rule of Three" (take a rifle around 3000 fps, sight in three high and shoot to three) are also used.
I typically carry my rifles equipped with turret scopes with the first 2.5 -3 MOA pre-dialled in.
Its a very common method of sighting in for open country. Most any big game rifle worth loading is good for zero to 300 yards with a center hold and not a thought given to range up to that point. Top of the back makes it to 400. Relics from the black powder era need not apply.
These days people usually refer to it as the MPBR method (Maximum Point Blank Range), but "3 high", and the "Rule of Three" (take a rifle around 3000 fps, sight in three high and shoot to three) are also used.
I typically carry my rifles equipped with turret scopes with the first 2.5 -3 MOA pre-dialled in.
I have been using the 3" high sighting on most of my hunting rifles for decades. As Dogleg eloquently points out, out to 300 yards (+ - a few yards, depending)
it is a dead-on hold. Last fall's Bull Elk was 425. My 8mm Mag hold was still on hair to make a 1 shot kill. My offhand shooting stops at about 200 yards. Beyond
that I am looking for a rest of some kind or other. Even closer in, if a rest is available, I will use it. Dave.
