Would you have shot the fifth shot?

[fallout mike]

I've done the same thing as you. Id do it again.

 

[K1500]

ALL my groups look just like that. I shoot the first shot and they just look so neat and pretty I can't stand to mess them up by pulling the trigger again.

FWIW I would have shot again.

 

[Greg528iT]

I'd have walked away, forgot to take the picture. Brag about it here, but without the picture appear to be a poser.
Great shooting. 4 shots is fine.

OH yeah, my grouping.. I pulled the self adhesive target down, stuck to the outside of my range bag.. and it fell off on the way to the truck..

 

[NavyLCDR]

My point of aim was the tape on the right. The fuzzy stuff behind the hole is the carpet in my living room.

I would suggest a different backstop rather than your living room carpet.... but that's just me....

 

[kb58]

I would suggest a different backstop rather than your living room carpet.... but that's just me....

The real problem was the complaining from the neighbors downstairs...

 

[Jurist]

what group

Drats and I thought my groups were bad!Hee Hee just kidding,keep up the good work.Yes I would have shot #5.

 

[M2 Carbine]

A few years back I was helping a friend sight in a 30-30 for his Father.
We were shooting at 100 yards at a 5 inch black bullseye target.
We quickly got the rifle sighted in.
I told my friend I'm going to try my new EAA Witness 45 Compact here at 100 yards.
I fired one shot but couldn't find the hole in the target. After looking a minute I started laughing.
My friend said, "Don't tell me that you hit that target from here". I kept laughing and pointed at the spotting scope.
As my friend looked for the bullet hole he kept saying, "No way you hit that target from here".
Finally he saw the 45 hole. It was dead center in the X in the 10 ring.
My friend said a couple times, "I just don't believe this".

Then he said, "Are you going to shoot some more".

I said, "Why".

 

[Deaf Smith]

But Ankeny....

You MISSED all four shots!

So yea, I'd take the fifth shot;-)

Deaf

 

[Dnaltrop]

Not for me... I have no problems screwing up a perfectly good grouping with the inevitable flyer. I know that it's an utterly unreasonable expectation of myself, but I'd feel dishonest if I didn't empty the gun.

Trailboss has been annoying me, so I loaded 20 .45 colts for the Schofield, with a midrange load of 5.6 grains of Titegroup, under a Berry's 225.

Vast difference in groupings, where with the trail boss I was happy to just stay vaguely within the silhouette, the Titegroup gave me this.

20 rounds, two handed. 50'. I was just trying for the grouping, so all shots are centered on the first hit.



Smaller holes are shrapnel, the .22 wasn't out yet.

I'm sure it would have looked a lot nicer with the 2 main larger holes cored out fully... but I'm a lot happier with the load. Slightly better kick for now. I'll buy a can of something slower when I go restock the loading bench.

Looking at my flyers stokes the fire to do better next time

 

[Mikhail Weiss]

I did that once with a Glock 19, freehand, at 25 yards. First shot went into the middle of the bullseye. I thought it was so easy I sent the rest of the rounds into an eight-inch group slightly to the left of that first shot. Dang. Should have stopped after the first...

So, yeah, I would have fired the fifth.

 

[S&Wfan]

Always!!!

 

[Brian Williams]

Empty the gun and reload and empty the gun again.

 

[pendennis]

Your original intent was to shoot five shots. However, you only shot four. Scoring-wise, you get a zero for shot five, since that one's a "Maggie's drawers".

 

[Ankeny]

Since there is no time limit on my rendition of "slow fire", I'll take the target back out in the next couple of decades and shoot the fifth shot. You can score it when I am finished if you like.

 

[skifast]

I fail to see what the big deal is, I shoot 1 shot groups like that all day. LOL

Nice shooting.

 

[walker944]

Yep, that's identical to my 1-shot group from my .500 S&W Magnum!!!!