I am an educated but simple man; I started reading this thread and I must have crossed some strange boundary when I got about a third of the way down - speaking in tongues? rapper?, inside joke?, - what in the hail are you talking about?????
It turned into a bit of an inside joke, I suppose, but it really didn’t have to be.
A member extolled “20 individual steps to achieve sub MOA or similar at 300 yards” in another thread, but when called to the mat to list them, he first punted by suggesting THIS thread be created for him to share his “20 individual steps” without derailing the other thread (rightfully and respectfully so). So I created it to beckon his knowledge, and he punted yet again by suggesting we Google “building a precision rifle,” and claiming it costs $5000 for the rifle, $3000 for the scope, and “another few thou” in cost to develop a load to “achieve sub-MOA or similar at 300 yards.”
So being deprived of the knowledge promised, several users are instead having a little satirical fun in what became a playground thread.
In fairness to
@JJFitch, I suppose his “build an $8000 rig and spend another few thou in load development” indeed IS a list of steps to “achieve sub-MOA or similar at 300 yards,” but it ain’t 20 steps, and it sure doesn’t make sense to any folks that have done it. I felt that was a rather insulting cop out by
@JJFitch to pretend achieving sub-MOA accuracy is simply cost prohibitive for most folks. Certainly an $8000 rig with thousands of dollars spent in load development SHOULD shoot sub-MOA at 300, but it’s definitely not the only way.
Within the veil of satire, I appreciate folks like
@taliv,
@Walkalong,
@horsey300, and
@Nature Boy for sharing alternative paths which are far more sensible. (*note - I’ll point out here the paths a couple of these guys yields sub-MOA performance MUCH farther than 300. Holding sub-MOA at 500+ certainly isn’t trivial, as it nearly is at 300, and the rifles and loads
@taliv,
@Walkalong, and
@Nature Boy are talking about will do it).
Personally, if someone asked me the “20 steps to achieve sub-MOA at 300 yards,” I’d also point out A) there aren’t 20 steps, and B) there are lots of ways to skin that cat. I’d offer reloading as the best shortcut in that path - factory ammo can do if, but it takes longer, offers less control, and costs more than common load development. I’d be confident I could achieve consistent sub-MOA results at 300yrds.
1) Buy one or two rifles off of the shelf whether Rem 700’s, Savage 10/12’s, Tikka T3’s, Ruger American, Precision, or Hawkeye, or Win 70’s (knowing my luck isn’t so bad that it would take THREE rifles to avoid two lemons)
2) Float the barrels and bed the action
3) Mount a ~$500-800 Bushnell, Burris, Leupold, Vortex, etc scope, preferably 4-16x44 or larger
4) Develop a load within 100 rounds which holds “sub-MOA or similar at 300yrds”
Unlike the Path to Paradise, the Gate is not strait and the Way is not narrow in the pursuit of sub-MOA at 300 yards.
