Picky barrel then. Just use the factory ammo? If it bothers you that much, send it. Or rebarrel it.Yes. It has nothing to do with the optic or mount. The same set up shoots factory ammo fine.
Yeah, that was a great two shot group. But that isn’t much data and hardly conclusive.You fired two shots and they landed within 2 inches at 500 yards from a cold barrel it sounds like. That's pretty good, IMO. I would be looking at the practical side of it and how many shots are you taking on a live animal? If a person is taking three or four shots on a live animal at extended long range, makes me want to understand the scenario the hunter has put himself into at that point.
I don't know how much play this has but I've heard that some longer for caliber bullets don't go to "sleep" or completely stabilize until they get out their a ways. That may or may not explain why they were close at 500 yards and you get a bit of discrepancy at 100 yards.
I checked the Bereger stabilization program, it says you shouldn't have any issues, but that is a long and sleek bullet with a hybrid ogive. Sometimes a gun doesn't like the design of the ogive and you could be dealing with that on the stability at shorter range.
Nothing wrong with those groups. If it were just one, you might could poke holes, and I’d ask for some 5 or 10 round groups, but looks like he could duplicate it. Just curious, is this your first and only magnum rifle?Am I being too picky? I had the guy that I paid just shoot a few groups. None opened up quite as bad as mine.
It is. I know it’s not quite the same as picking up a 5.56, but I’m shooting suppressed and I seem to shoot ok with factory ammo. Not that I’ve shot a ton.Nothing wrong with those groups. If it were just one, you might could poke holes, and I’d ask for some 5 or 10 round groups, but looks like he could duplicate it. Just curious, is this your first and only magnum rifle?
That would definitely explain it.It is. I know it’s not quite the same as picking up a 5.56, but I’m shooting suppressed and I seem to shoot ok with factory ammo. Not that I’ve shot a ton.
He replicated all <1” groups.
I shot these 4 groups with him there. One sucks, but the others are fine. Idk. I may be a bit paranoid after the rocky start with this gun. It's interesting that my POI/POA seems to shift group to group. Maybe he's right, I'm not parallax free and my head position is changing?
It's what I've been thinking.That would definitely explain it.
Yeah, that was a great two shot group. But that isn’t much data and hardly conclusive.
As you can see from that first target I posted some groups were good. One was great with all three touching. What worries me is suddenly shooting a 2 to 3 inch group. I don’t think there’s any possible way I’m throwing shots that bad, but he just had half a dozen groups couldn’t replicate it.
SD was 5 FPS. Maybe the load is good and I’m just sneezing while firing occasionally without realizing it
One thing he mentioned watching me shoot was in my cheek weld didn’t look great. We got into a discussion, and he said it doesn’t matter if you were parallax free cheek well needs to be exactly the same every time because parallax is something different.
Of course do you want to do everything exactly the same every time. But isn’t that technically incorrect? If your optic was 100% parallax free couldn’t you free-floating your head in any position without it affecting POI?