Show us your group!

No way!

You wasted 1045 FREE hours?

Seriously, what would be a good group for a .22 single shot bolt action at 25 yards? I have no idea what brand or model the gun is...

edited to add: well, I guess that means I'll be using my Latin mosaics as targets...

Ok, it wasn't a group...

But how did Jeff Cooper so eloquently state it? "It's not what you can do, but what you can do on demand." 1/2 kilometer, from the prone using a bipod:

Here's a 200 yard target

This out of my Sendero with muzzle break and recoil pad "system". Off bench and bags, with a slight 90 degree breeze...

The horizontal stringing is either trigger control and breathing or the breeze. Probably the former. I've got a long way to go for the "one ragged hole"...

Seriously, what would be a good group for a .22 single shot bolt action at 25 yards? I have no idea what brand or model the gun is...

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I can't do it but my oldest daughter (ex-marine) can make nickel sized groups with plain vanilla .22LR ammo all day at 75 yds. She shoots my Marlin 25N that has a cheap 4X BSA Wally World scope mounted on it. Kind'a embarassing actually. If it wasn't for the fact that I'm a way better pistol shot than her...

Now if I could just get my other two daughters into shooting...

Although these are somewhat dated, they depict what these two rifles do on a regular basis.
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The first shot with the Rem700PSS is low and to the right, and for some reason that seems to be the norm. Only two or three times have I been able to have all four shots touch and include the first shot. The last three to touch is never a problem. (At 100 yd, BH 168gr Moly, shooting from a VersaPod bipod and just my shoulder at the other end.)


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To me, the astonishing thing about what this next target shows is that I have put on and taken off the scope of this HK91A2 rifle each time I go to the range, and every single time it is right on. I have never had to make any adjustnments since I first installed the scope. Here, the first shot is low and to the left, and the 11th or 12th shot was high and to the right. The rest of the 18 shots are in the 'torn' 1-1/2" group. (At 100 yd, Portuguese surplus, shooting from the HK bipod and my shoulder at the other end.)

Here is what I did with my CZ 452 at 25 yards.

www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35067

No idea how to post a pix = I'm an old, dumb guy, but did take a digital pix of a fairly recent group from The Old Man's "worn out" .22-250

3X 100 yarder & this old rifle is still turning in groups of under .200"

Got a target, with steel rule pix'd that shows 2 of the groups. Hanging on the refrig.

Rifle's an old Rem Varmitmaster, bull bbl'd that I restocked with a HS Precision stock (the older one warped when transported from the humid SE to CO) & a B&L Elite 400 6X24 scope.

Can't even find the lands anymore, but this rifle still shoots better than I do.

Neck-sized only & with Sierra's Match King 52 grainers - may be 53 - would have to look at the reloading data to be sure.

Pure death on anything suitable within 400 yards .......

no digital cam but, my best group was when I was working up the load for my Tikka master sporter in 223. 0.26 inches ctc on a 5 shot at 100 yds.

69 gr moly coated SMK
23.4 gr Varget (individually weighed)
LC67 case (FL sized, weight sorted, chamfered, flash hole deburred)
WSR primer.
Loaded on a dillon 550B

The wind was awful.

Whats depressing is, as an experiment I just cranked out a huge batch of that load. didn't sort cases, weigh charges, or deburred the flash hole, and the average group size was 0.5 MOA. Given that I'm not a bench rester, that extra 0.25 MOA isn't worth it when my hold is only 1.5 MOA

atek3

A couple of groups shot w/ an M44 and M91/30 at 50 yards. Iron sights, using Czech silver tip ammo, from a bench and one of the 'rests' (some two by fours and carpet) at the club.

First the m44... the dot is a 2".

...and the 91/30.

Polish P-64 pistol




50 yards
Texas 15 yard CHL target, 12 inch center ring.

Sighting in target
1st mag, low
2nd mag, still a little low
3rd mag, too high



Fire for effect
I pulled right a little

this target is my best with my NEF 30-06 Handi rifle.

it was the 5th 3sht group that morning. which explains why it was below the zero line.

POI drops as it warms up.

cold zero is 1 1/2 -2" high @ 100yd.

these groups were shot on the just the 3rd outing with my Savage 10FPLE1 20" 308.

225yds with federal GMM 168gr.

love that rifle so much I recently 'stole' a LNIB 10 in 223 at a recent show for $280. OTD


on its first trip @ 100yds, it shot some 1/2" (3shot) groups with BH 68 gr remanufactured match HP using a nasty old tasco scope I put on for testing.

Wow. I need to practice more! This is the "target" from when I was sighting in my red dot on my SU-16 at 25 yards, mostly Winchester USA 55gr .223, random 5 and 10 shot groups. Having the case side on the computer makes a nice target stand.

3 shots, .24" center-to-center at 100yds. NDM-86 Dragunov in .308 using Georgia Arms "Canned Heat" 168gr match ammo & a crappy Russian 8x scope.


Tomac

This is a .112 50yrd. 10 shot group with a 10/22. Shot outdoors overcast with slight breeze.

50 Yards,
50 Shots, (a box of cheap Blazer .22 ammo)
1930 Montgomery Ward EJN 807 made by Hawthorne, but actually produced by Colt (A Colteer I believe)
Single shot bolt action .22LR, manual extraction (read fingernail)
Prone, no support.






RTFM

Damn good shooting!

M1A Supermatch
168gr Nosler J4 MK
VVN140, WLR, LC 89 NM
100yds, iron sights

You guys are (esp the M1a with irons!) better shots than I am.

Made a 1/2" 3shot group on tuesdat with my AR-30 at 100. That's about as well as I can shoot. (prone, bipod. .338 Lapua Magnum.) No pic, left tgts at the range.

Buckskinner- what cal spits out the 168s at 3100, .300WM?