Enough of this obsession with accuracy

[VICHunter]

Lets hear the worst shooting you've done.

It's good for you to laugh at the things you did poorly.

I 'knew' a particular rifle was sighted in but just to confirm today I stuck an apple at 50m to shoot. Took 4 shots without a hit, thought hmmm I must be wrong, it's not zeroed.

Set up a paper target, got comfy prone resting on a bag and did a 3 shot group to see where it was.

Yep... It was on bullseye :lol

Apple kept safe just by my woeful shooting on the morning

[handofcod]

Was filthy with my benchrest results and my wasted efforts trying to find a more accurate handload so picked up the 300WSM and decided to take a few offhand shots at my target at 200m. Blew my frame apart on the second shot.... clearly I won't be taking any offhand shots at 200m any time soon...

[David Brown]

Shooting 50m pistol yesterday……..I saw the target number flip around……how did I shoot that high….surely not……. oops!

[bigfellascott]

Yep you can't always be spot on as much as some insist they can, you will have good and bad days no matter how well tuned your rifle is, sometimes I miss dead set sitters and other days I smash things way out yonder that I wonder how the hell I hit it.

I just take it as it comes now and I've given up on trying to shoot small groups, I'm more interested on making sure the first shot is on target these days.

[anthillinside]

First time zeroing an SMLE with aperture sights.
Not even hitting paper…
Bore sighted 3 times hitting low but loosing it after adjusting sights.
Three day later wondering what I was going to do to the sights and had the DOH moment.
Was adjusting the WRONG way.
Once … maybe OK, twice … idiot, three times … your OUT.

[1290]

zeroing an SMLE is a relative term....

but on a serious thought, whats more important accuracy or precision?? huh??

[anthillinside]

There’s a Youtube series about "The road to precision" (can't remember the channel) but about a guy getting into F Class shooting.
One thing he put forward and I think I'd agree.
The Gun is the thing that has the Precision.
The Shooter has to provide the Accuracy.
You often see people asking or stating if a particular firearm is “accurate”
We all understand what is meant by that.
But bolt 99% of firearms down to solid bench in a controlled environment and they’ll shoot better than 99% of shooters could ever manage.
The rifle is a piece of “precision” engineering.
Accuracy is in the hands of the holder.

[handofcod]

In a kind of philosophical way, the rifle is always accurate. It's everything else around it that's wrong.

[Mule]

Last week I was out on one of my shooting contracts. Talking to the employer and took a shot at a bunny at 60m. Swear I shaved the the back of his head as he turned.
boss just chuckled

[1290]

Last week I was out on one of my shooting contracts. Talking to the employer and took a shot at a bunny at 60m. Swear I shaved the the back of his head as he turned.
boss just chuckled

so.... you were lacking in accuracy, or was it precision

[FuzzyM]

Trying to get my 303 on A3 paper. Three misses, wind the elevation all the way down, two hits out of three on the corner of the paper. Take the mountain dew can shim out of the mount, adjust left. 8-10 inches high still. Ran out of ammo and went home. Need to shim the mount the other way. (using proper shim stock) Luckily it's a one piece mount. Got most of it on video too.

[1290]

Trying to get my 303 on A3 paper. Three misses, wind the elevation all the way down, two hits out of three on the corner of the paper. Take the mountain dew can shim out of the mount, adjust left. 8-10 inches high still. Ran out of ammo and went home. Need to shim the mount the other way. (using proper shim stock) Luckily it's a one piece mount. Got most of it on video too.

A drink can? thats a lot of elevation , like the famous bigfella picture with the fully extended bipod (45 odd degree of elevation)

[Prios]

I reckon I'm not the only person who has put a scope on 90 degrees the wrong way

[FuzzyM]

Trying to get my 303 on A3 paper. Three misses, wind the elevation all the way down, two hits out of three on the corner of the paper. Take the mountain dew can shim out of the mount, adjust left. 8-10 inches high still. Ran out of ammo and went home. Need to shim the mount the other way. (using proper shim stock) Luckily it's a one piece mount. Got most of it on video too.

A drink can? thats a lot of elevation , like the famous bigfella picture with the fully extended bipod (45 odd degree of elevation)

Smarty pants

The folded up piece of drink can was less dodgey than the fact that they forgot to do up the front of the mount when they installed the scope
Luckily I realised it was loose when I got it home.
I like to think the gun shop I go to is pretty decent, wasn't impressed that day.....

[Herdsman]

I reckon I'm not the only person who has put a scope on 90 degrees the wrong way

Got half way through tightening one on before I noticed

[Gwion]

A few weeks back i got my 22lr, a SSAA 'cat target' at 25m and put a box of 50 at it standing/off hand. Lets just say my strike rate got better towards the end but definitely needs more ground!!!

Zeroed the trailboss load in my 223. It was 7minutes difference (or something) to my target load. Put it back to zero. Went to the range and proceeded to shoot about 12 rounds over the top of the target at 200yd, making small adjustments before i realised i had wound the the scope back to zero the wrong way after the trailboss load. Wound it full back one rotation and bang onto the target!

I'll have to redo that trailboss zero now because i don't trust it.

[Rakk]

I blame this on laying very uncomfortable ground and the time but I've put 3 out at a 6" target before and not hit a thing.

[anthillinside]

It's moments like these ^^^ that are part of the enjoyment of the sport/hobby.
Just about every sport or hobby is or has it's level of obsession.
For some just having a rifle is an obsession for another it's tracking stalking another it'sthe single hole group at 1 2 300 + meters.
The fact that we are all here reading and posting joins us in a common obsession called shooting

[Streamline]

The fact that we are all here reading and posting joins us in a common obsession called shooting

Just gotta wonder how many we've lost due to smashing keyboards in frustration

[headspace]

Yes, it's got to the point now that you don't skite about a group unless they all touch at 200m. Then someone says "just play with your seating depth and you may improve it." What, in a hunting rifle?

[bigfellascott]

Yes, it's got to the point now that you don't skite about a group unless they all touch at 200m. Then someone says "just play with your seating depth and you may improve it." What, in a hunting rifle?

Yeah if ya don't do it ya could be off the POA by 1mm - that makes all the diff in hunting type situations hey!

I'm with ya mate, fine accuracy really isn't needed for 99.9999% of hunting situations.

Only thing I could think of that would really benefit from tiny groups would be shooting long ranges 500m+ on tiny critters!

[sha]

If you wanna see inaccurate come on over. I'll teach you how

[headspace]

Thanks for the offer Sha but I think I've got that covered.

[Turkle]

Teach us oh wise one