firedawg60
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I can consistently shoot less than 1/2" one-shot groups at 300 yards with my Garand.
Indeed, I would guess you shoot even tighter, maybe a third of an inch or less!I can consistently shoot less than 1/2" one-shot groups at 300 yards with my Garand.
You too?? My Garand does the same thing !!!I can consistently shoot less than 1/2" one-shot groups at 300 yards with my Garand.
Ah! I stand corrected. I shot in the Western Division (U. S. M. C.) rifle and pistol matches in 1975 and 1976. So my information regarding rules (allowed arms and modifications) is probably dated.CMP Games matches are fired with "as-issued" M1, 1903 Springfield, and various vintage military rifles (both US and foreign) with minimal allowed modifications. Trigger work, subject to safe minimum pull weights, is allowed. Rear sight apertures can be made smaller, but that is the only modification allowed to the sights. So for those rifles, shot at 200 yds., 3.5 MOA is the expected standard.
I'm personally still at the Indian-not-the-bow-and-arrow phase. Pretty much any functioning rifle is mechanically more accurate than my rifle marksmanship, although certainly you can tell some difference - a 16" Colt carbine with an EoTech at 100 yards is a 3" group or so for me including a flyer, but the same distance with an iron-sighted SKS I'm lucky to have two rounds on the 12" target. And in between is the excellent peep sights on my M1 carbine, which is not known for being an exceptionally accurate long gun but which has superior sights to the SKS and is minute-of-pie-plate for me at 100 yards all day. So the mechanical accuracy of the gun certainly affects my accuracy, but the type of sights and the variance in my own marksmanship seem to be bigger factors in my precision and accuracy.