Nice 100 yard group

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I don't know if this guy is B.S.-ing or not, but if I had the rifle and ability to shoot this with a .22cal I would be tickled pink. Especially if I could do it consistently.

I fitted a Leupold VX-III 4-14 x 50mm on my Finnfire Varmint.

Here's my last 100-yard group with Lapua Master from yesterday's range session:

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It's from a post on Rimfire Central.
 
Entirely possible to shoot such groups at 100 with the right rifle, right load and right conditions. I shot two .89" 5-shot groups at 200 with my 40X rimfire a day apart. Consistent repeatability is the tough one. It can be elusive to repeat a great group from any firearm, including a very accurate rimfire. But this gent is shooting a HB Finnfire [usually quite accurate] He's shooting quality ammo, which, obviously his Finnfire likes. No indication of conditions, but I'll wager no wind to speak of. Result? Nice group. Regards, Eagleye.
 
Right now, I have 6" groups with my 597, stock trigger and 9x scope. Once I install the new hammer in there and get a 12-20x scope, those groups will most likely drop to 2-3"... and I'm just a decent LR shooter, so I can imagine him telling the truth.
 
Not that I'm a doubting Thomas and I don't want to steal anyone's thunder,
but the spacing among these shots would indicate this to be about a 1" group. Holes are .22 and space between the top 2 and the lone shot on the right make about 1" same as the bottom pair to the top horizontal string.
It might be the angle of my laptop screen!:rolleyes:
 
If the squares made up by the heavy lines are 1", then the group is as claimed, just over ½" Center to center. Here below is a sub-moa 200 meter group shot with my 40X Remington 22LR. This group measures .89", C to C. Regards, Eagleye.
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Groups like this entirely possible. Lapua super club out of my Savage MkII produce 1.5" groups consistently and 1" being not uncommon. Good scope, good ammo, good rifle, calm day - if all those things fall together then one may produce 0.5" 5-shot groups occasionally.
 
With my winchester 52 on a good day with good ammunition I can average around 3/4" for 5 shots groups and about .9" or so for 10 shot groups at 100 yards. Quite duable. Get the odd group around 1.25-1.4" or so and the odd group below 1/2"
 
Not that I'm a doubting Thomas and I don't want to steal anyone's thunder,
but the spacing among these shots would indicate this to be about a 1" group. Holes are .22 and space between the top 2 and the lone shot on the right make about 1" same as the bottom pair to the top horizontal string.
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Those holes are likely much smaller than .22" because the stick on aiming point likely flexed a lot more than normal target paper.
 
Ski911 said:
well if you guys wanna come watch I can do it again... it was the best of 6 groups the day I went out. I find it hard to believe that you would all immediately call bs on this instead of asking what I had done to the rifle. The other groups weren't that far off from this one, and I was kinda happy with the results of the trigger work and stock fitting. I just won't bother posting in here again.
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No need to get excited. I'm curious as to what you've done with your rifle. I'm in the process of getting my Remington 597 shooting better, floated the barrel, swapped in a Volquartzen target hammer.

Going to stiffen the forestock, bed the action, and see where it's at. How did you get to those groups??

Thats better than I was even hoping for when done. Cold groups, or warmed up?? Ammo, etc, please share.
 
Ski911 said:
well if you guys wanna come watch I can do it again... it was the best of 6 groups the day I went out. I find it hard to believe that you would all immediately call bs on this instead of asking what I had done to the rifle. The other groups weren't that far off from this one, and I was kinda happy with the results of the trigger work and stock fitting. I just won't bother posting in here again.
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It's pretty simple really, something's just "off" about that group claim. You see, even if you had $10,000 to spend on the ultimate benchrest .22LR (which wouldn't be a semi auto, that's for sure), CCI Mini Mags themselves are incapable of that level of consistency. It doesn't matter if you removed every other variable, bulk production ammo like Mini Mags just aren't consistent enough, even with rim sorted ammo.

I had a $2500 Kimber based benchrest .22LR, single shot, that weighed 12lbs+, and it wouldn't even shoot a group anything near that with ammo like Mini Mags. Now to make a .4 MOA 100 yard group with a 597, Mini Mags, and say this wasn't all that unusual... well I'm holding back a smile here, lets just say that. I love posts like that one, they're good for the mood!
Who knows... like the gentleman said, maybe the biggest fluke of all time, but I doubt it.
 
I just measured a penny, .751 the group is bigger than a penny so I don't know why the heck you are talking about .4 group
 
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