Shot Groupings
I see a lot of people posting their shot grouping on here and how tight they are… The question I have is, Why aren’t they cutting Dead Nuts Center of the Bullseye?. Isn’t accuracy what it is all about? Personally I like to knock out the center of the target… Am I missing something here? Maybe I read the instructions wrong. I am not trying to offend, but if you can group em that tight why not group them on the center of the target? Just saying.
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Me too! Zeroing is a no brainer but as I am trying different pellets and if I zero at 25 yards and than test at 50 yards the POI shifts.
I want consistancy one I have that the zero is easy to change but when testing I am not going to chase a POI all over until I get my groups where they should be.
Randy
well in my case , i may have a 25 yard zero , and shooting at 35 yards or 50 for instance.
but i do zero and try and knock the center out of the targets sometimes, one shot at each or what ever it takes to hit center.
but if you are shooting for groups and your hitting center, you loose your aim point. 🙂
Like pab said…don’t like ruining the POA with a bunch of pellet holes, LOL. I like to dissect the dot/circle/POA with my crosshairs into four equal parts before I send it. When you see these groups off of the bull it is because one is testing the accuracy of the gun/pellet, not trying to zero the scope on the bull. Once you have settled on which specific pellet you are going to feed your gun..then you can tackle the task of zeroing your scope for precision shooting.
Yeah, good point Harry.
Heres some .177 and some fucked up barrel bushing .25 shots at 40 yrds.
Well, we were just having this conversation on another forum. And in my opinion, there are two reasons for it.
One, and the more pessimistic one, is someone can’t shoot. I often think of this, when it is one tight group, and it is way off center, and they zoom way in on that group and don’t show anything else. So, they get lucky with a few bullets going in the same hole (possibly not even sequential shots) and they take a picture of that.
The second, and more optimistic, is for testing. For example, look at my groups in the “first handload results” thread under other guns. Obviously, the groups are tight enough, and close to the same spot, where I could have easily brought them up and destroyed the dots. But, for things like load testing, each load won’t hit in the exact same spot, so no point adjusting the scope to center until you have a good load. Plus, if they were more dead on, the first two shots would completely tear the dot through the target, so I would loose my specific aiming point, and just be guessing a bit. So you make the bullets hit a little off center for the extra precision. This would also work for airguns, testing new pellets, fill pressures, power levels, etc.
Those are the two biggies in my opinion. I usually assume the first if they are just showing off a group and don’t say anything about handloading or testing or anything of the sort. Plus, I tend to doubt most people on the internet, so that makes me guess the first one as well.
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Most everyone I know always sets there sights up for above or below the target or dots they are shooting for one reason, so you still have something to aim at if you shoot it all out, and like others will post you are also shooting for groups with various pellets, and trying to find the one that your gun likes, so for that reason there is no sense in moving it to dead zero until you find the right combination of ammo! This is the only reason for doing that nothing to get overly excited about 😯