This site is filled with threads about trying to solve issues relating to precision. It is also filled with irrelevent claims as to which brand is better. I know there are several here that have a great deal of experience in shooting and with a whole continuum of equipment and cartridges. They quietly say the same things over and over again: Learn to reload, buy the best you can afford and practice practice practice. Precision depends on an accurate load, an accurate shooter and an accurate gun. The best you will ever achieve with be equal to the least of these three influences. Now, in regards to the accurate gun... can bling out your gun with the best gizmos out there, but if it doesn't have a decent barrel, you are wasting time and money - if ultimate precision is your objective.
There are also some "sure things" out there to get you on your way to shooting bug holes and one of those (in my humble opinion) is the venerable 6mmBR Norma. 30ish grains of Varget and a Sierra or Berger bullet and if you can't get a group in the .2's there is a problem with either you or with the gun. (At the risk of offending I think a recipe for sure failure is expecting to learn precison shooting with a factory 300 Win Mag {or insert any other big bajeezus cartridge} hunting rifle)
Ironically enough, there was a story on 6BR.com about a factory 6BR and I thought a picture is worth a thousand words so to speak. Ths is not meant to be a brand endorsement, because there are no bad barrel brands out there on custom shelves, but the lesson I thought that really lurked here was that trying to trouble shoot with too many variables can be a very costly and frustrating process. I think the best way to hedge your bets when trying to get into the precison shooting game (and by that, I mean actively seeking to shoot the very smallest groups you can with consistency for whatever your application..competitive or not) is to start out putting your money in the right places.
Most factory guns can be made to shoot better, but many will never be stellar. There are many pleasure shooters out there that will never compete, and the are many shooters that have no desire to spend the kind of money that goes in to making a match-winning gun. That does NOT mean you can't get better and it doesn't mean you can't have tons of fun, but when you DO want to take it to that next level, sorting out comsetic upgrades from functional upgrades is often under-appreciated.
Anyway, I thought this was a pretty good read.
There are also some "sure things" out there to get you on your way to shooting bug holes and one of those (in my humble opinion) is the venerable 6mmBR Norma. 30ish grains of Varget and a Sierra or Berger bullet and if you can't get a group in the .2's there is a problem with either you or with the gun. (At the risk of offending I think a recipe for sure failure is expecting to learn precison shooting with a factory 300 Win Mag {or insert any other big bajeezus cartridge} hunting rifle)
Ironically enough, there was a story on 6BR.com about a factory 6BR and I thought a picture is worth a thousand words so to speak. Ths is not meant to be a brand endorsement, because there are no bad barrel brands out there on custom shelves, but the lesson I thought that really lurked here was that trying to trouble shoot with too many variables can be a very costly and frustrating process. I think the best way to hedge your bets when trying to get into the precison shooting game (and by that, I mean actively seeking to shoot the very smallest groups you can with consistency for whatever your application..competitive or not) is to start out putting your money in the right places.
Most factory guns can be made to shoot better, but many will never be stellar. There are many pleasure shooters out there that will never compete, and the are many shooters that have no desire to spend the kind of money that goes in to making a match-winning gun. That does NOT mean you can't get better and it doesn't mean you can't have tons of fun, but when you DO want to take it to that next level, sorting out comsetic upgrades from functional upgrades is often under-appreciated.
Anyway, I thought this was a pretty good read.
What about palma? In my opinion BR is not the only precision discipline. Take "Tactical" Shooting is there not precision involved there? Do you not have to accomodate for all (if not more)variables than you do in Br? I think we as a shooting community need to get over this Im a such and such shooter mentality. We all enjoy different aspects of the same hobby, granted im sick of the which $500 rifle are better threads too but that is what some guys are into or all they can afford. Does that make them below somebody that has the ability to afford high end gear? Everybody has to start somewhere.
