500 firings on brass
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I think I have some 45 ACP brass that could have been fired that many times, it’s just smooth on the bottom. Not even a sign on a headstamp.
“Area saturation” or “golden bb” is the way I always look at that kind of stuff. 10,000, 5 shot, 2” groups and you are bound to have one better than others. Just the chance that you could negatively effect accuracy that offsets the present negative effects on accuracy of the load.
I’d take it and pat myself on the back but put the gun down when someone asks me, right afterwards, do it again.
“Area saturation” or “golden bb” is the way I always look at that kind of stuff. 10,000, 5 shot, 2” groups and you are bound to have one better than others. Just the chance that you could negatively effect accuracy that offsets the present negative effects on accuracy of the load.
I’d take it and pat myself on the back but put the gun down when someone asks me, right afterwards, do it again.
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I guess that's one more thing I'm supposedly doing "wrong". Since I don't shoot from a static bench, I only recover a fraction of my brass each time, so by the time I've got 5 or 6 firings, it's all been lost to the weeds. Now, I hear that brass wasn't even fully formed. On well, I guess I'll just have to get used to shooting unformed, semi-hardened brass.
Seriously, I'm a 3 to 4 MOA shooter (shooting offhand, not at a bench) at the best of times. I regard the "five shots, one hole" shooters to have a similar relationship to me and the shooting I do that a NASCAR driver would have with a driving an economy car on city streets. We simply inhabit two different worlds.
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Funny you should say that. While I was reading I was thinking of the monkey and typewriter analogy. If you gave a million monkeys an SKS with about 100,000 rounds a piece, eventually one of them would shoot a one hole 5 shot group.
Assuming they didn't organize and enslave humanity. I saw that in a movie once, and I still don't trust monkeys.
Odds are, yep.
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How do you even go about measuring a 0.0077" .30 Cal group? I had trouble measuring a 0.33" .30 Cal group. I'm sure computers and sensors played a big part in correctly measuring that group.
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.0077 Wow, (different universe than my rifle shooting)
Yes I am sure everything had to come together, planets aligned etc. But it sounds like a new World Record, beating one that has stood for about 45 years.
If it was easy it wouldn't have been 45 years......
Congrats to the shooter, and the people who built the rifle.
Yes I am sure everything had to come together, planets aligned etc. But it sounds like a new World Record, beating one that has stood for about 45 years.
If it was easy it wouldn't have been 45 years......
Congrats to the shooter, and the people who built the rifle.
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