longdayjake
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I would like to let everyone know what I discovered the other day as well as ask a couple of questions. I have a 1-9" twist barrel AR that I have handloaded thousands of 62 grain rounds for. At 100 yards it shoots ragged one hole groups. A buddy of mine bought a ruger mII .223 rifle. So, we take out my buddies new ruger and shoot a bunch to see where they are hitting compared to mine. As we go to check the groups it is obvious that his gun is a 1-12" twist because the holes looked like little chicken eggs. So the bullets were tumbling through the air and hitting the target at a slight angle. The surprising thing was that the groups were still pretty amazing. They weren't as good as my AR but they were within 1". I wanted to see what kind of accuracy it would get at 200 yards but we ran out of daylight before I could take a target out to 200. Has anyone experienced this before? Could my friend still hunt coyotes within 200 yards with 62 grain bullets and not worry about being unethical? I ask because he bought 700 rounds of m855 when he bought his gun. I would buy them from him but there is no way my wife would let me spend that kind of dough on bullets. I am strictly a handloader for that reason. We tried some of my handloads through his rifle to see if that was the issue, but we got the same results.