Wobble wrote:A pair of 5 shot groups is a good tell IMO.
3 seems to be a perceived magic number for a lot of people. With so few shots it's easy to fluke a good group, even pull a shot but have inaccurate ammo send it back in the right direction for a clover leaf.
I can't help but laugh/roll my eyes when people brag over an awesome 2 shot "group" they're waving a picture around of
What if you do say half a doz 3 shot groups that were very consistent, would that not be a good indicator of how the rifle shoots with that particular load?
Normally I just shoot a 3 shot group to find something that shoots fine, then confirm it's ok by doing as I said above if the results are consistent I'm happy to roll with it (hunter here not a target shooter) so really the first shot is of more importance to me than say all bullets in the one hole type thing.
I've even got ammo I haven't tested on paper to see how it groups, but have tested it on bunnies out to 270m or so and have been able to remove heads of them with it at that distance so figured it must shoot good enough for my needs (had to knock up some loads in a hurry and didn't worry about testing them due to needing to be out hunting instead of shooting paper so figured I'd soon find out how they shoot and still haven't bothered testing them on paper to this day and honestly have no intentions of doing so as they shoot fine the way they are.