I shot the target below this morning, from left to right. The distance was 57 yards. The first 24 went well enough. I was quite confident the next would go where the previous four had gone. I was wrong and disappointed.
When 24/25 Isn't Good Enough
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It'll happen, with results like that it's just a matter of putting enough lead downrange to beat the odds.
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Yep. Center up the scope, then go stick cuttin'. Shootin' paper be boring to me.
So I’m not alone, one of my favorite targets are the weeds on the range!
OP- too bad about the last one you almost made the 50 yrd challenge!
I think that's funny....."you almost made the 50.....". Check the stats and you'll recognize the name...... frequently.
Not sure I see a "shift" to the right. It appears the shooter has an aiming point and allows the groups to be AWAY from the aiming point. I do that frequently so I don't disturb my point of aim. I'm just glad I'm not the only one that has shots I can't explain.
Not sure I see a "shift" to the right. It appears the shooter has an aiming point and allows the groups to be AWAY from the aiming point. I do that frequently so I don't disturb my point of aim. I'm just glad I'm not the only one that has shots I can't explain.
Thanks for commiserating with me. All rimfire shooters have shots that go elsewhere rather than where they should.
Even when targets are levelled on the backer and the scope is properly aligned, sometimes targets may have some groups that appear to change their POI relative to one another. The causes of this are another discussion.
The same target posted above is shown below with vertical lines from the point of aim. Readers can judge if the groups tended to move to the right -- other than the outlier on the last group, that is.
As for an explanation for that last shot, I'm not sure I have one. Of the twenty groups I shot with this ammo, Midas +, none had similar outliers. At the same time, even top tier ammo can have a flier in a box. Today, however, this ammo gave only one sub-.2" group of the twenty. On other days such groups have been a little more plentiful.
The slight breeze that came and went yesterday morning might have kept the ammo from doing its best. I could hear the leaves rustling in the trembling aspens that grow in abundance around the range, and it seemed to grow louder as I was finishing the target. That too could have influenced me in some way. On reflection, however, those trees are noisier than most and the breeze probably didn't come into play enough to push a round out by that much. In the end, I knew the target was one of my best, and there was an undeniable sense of growing pressure that can influence performance. But I can't say why that last shot didn't go as expected.
Even when targets are levelled on the backer and the scope is properly aligned, sometimes targets may have some groups that appear to change their POI relative to one another. The causes of this are another discussion.
The same target posted above is shown below with vertical lines from the point of aim. Readers can judge if the groups tended to move to the right -- other than the outlier on the last group, that is.
As for an explanation for that last shot, I'm not sure I have one. Of the twenty groups I shot with this ammo, Midas +, none had similar outliers. At the same time, even top tier ammo can have a flier in a box. Today, however, this ammo gave only one sub-.2" group of the twenty. On other days such groups have been a little more plentiful.
The slight breeze that came and went yesterday morning might have kept the ammo from doing its best. I could hear the leaves rustling in the trembling aspens that grow in abundance around the range, and it seemed to grow louder as I was finishing the target. That too could have influenced me in some way. On reflection, however, those trees are noisier than most and the breeze probably didn't come into play enough to push a round out by that much. In the end, I knew the target was one of my best, and there was an undeniable sense of growing pressure that can influence performance. But I can't say why that last shot didn't go as expected.
Well I for one would have been dancing a jig, if I could get groups like that. Congratulations on what I perceive to be a very good target. Heck if you had each of the five groups all in one hole, there would have been no use going back to the range next week!!!!
Years past I watched some women shooting at an international match, all offhand. Targets were impressive till one girl took a shot and you could see it's impact was considerably OUT of the centre scoring ring. She paused,... looked confused,... looked at the ammo box,.... then, ......like a champion shooter, .....got right back into the game and proceeded to shoot more centre shots. Champion shooters never get STUCK looking at a poor last shot but focus on the next "BEST SHOT". (not that I'm familiar with a BEST shot ).
I wasn't commenting on the overall placement of the groups from the point of aim. It seems to my eye that the right-most shot in each successive group trends increasingly to the right, with the last one being most conspicuous.
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It's an Anschutz 1411 barreled action in an Anschutz BR 50 stock.
I must admit to feeling somewhat embarrassed to talk about this target when around the same time Eagleye posted a significantly better one with all groups sub-.2" on the 1/2" challenge thread. That's the one that deserves plaudits.
It's an Anschutz 1411 barreled action in an Anschutz BR 50 stock.
I must admit to feeling somewhat embarrassed to talk about this target when around the same time Eagleye posted a significantly better one with all groups sub-.2" on the 1/2" challenge thread. That's the one that deserves plaudits.
Okay then, shewt thet targitt lean'in gofer first.
Jeeesh, that's nice.
