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Post by Lee Martin on Dec 9, 2022 15:46:09 GMT -5
In short-range benchrest, we occasionally see a guy with a 6.5 Creedmoor or chassis gun 'something' come out to play. Often they claim it'll routinely cut 0.5" or less @ 100 yards. Then reality hits them in the face. I can't tell you how many of those guys leave with a bag full of excuses. In BR, we call it the "wallet group". Meaning, they shoot one really tight group, cut it out, stick it in their wallet, and proceed to make claims about their tack-driver rig. To do anything routinely, and across lots of conditions, you need a top shelf rifle. And you absolutely need to know how to tune it. -Lee www.singleactions.com"Chasing perfection five shots at a time" |
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Post by squawberryman on Dec 10, 2022 8:55:02 GMT -5
Mic drop.
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weiler
.30 Stingray
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Post by weiler on Dec 10, 2022 9:17:42 GMT -5
In short-range benchrest, we occasionally see a guy with a 6.5 Creedmoor or chassis gun 'something' come out to play. Often they claim it'll routinely cut 0.5" or less @ 100 yards. Then reality hits them in the face. I can't tell you how many of those guys leave with a bag full of excuses. In BR, we call it the "wallet group". Meaning, they shoot one really tight group, cut it out, stick it in their wallet, and proceed to make claims about their tack-driver rig. To do anything routinely, and across lots of conditions, you need a top shelf rifle. And you absolutely need to know how to tune it. -Lee www.singleactions.com"Chasing perfection five shots at a time" I’m sure if you showed up to one of those shoots with a factory gun, an open mind and left the ego in the car you could learn a lot |
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Post by squawberryman on Dec 10, 2022 9:48:10 GMT -5
Read about Tubb
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kooz
.327 Meteor
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Post by kooz on Dec 10, 2022 10:49:58 GMT -5
I was perusing another forum and I came across an ad for a Cooper in .257 Wby, and the author claimed “it shoots 1/4 to 1/2 MOA with boring regularity” and then states it had less than 20 rounds through it. Now even if you got lucky on the bore sighting and had it zeroed in one shot that would leave you 18 rds at the most since he said less than 20 rounds were fired. How could that be considered “boring regularity?” Years ago, I frequented several sites where knives were either the man topic or the main tool associated with the site-specific topic. There were very many who would post emphatic claims regarding how superior THEIR choice in a $400, XYZ "survival knife" was compared to any obviously inferior knife anyone else chose. There was a distinct and unescapable undertone in their message that their choice made them intellectually superior to people who did not chose the knife they chose. The claims were outrageous, such as being able to dig a fox-hole with the knife, puncture the hood of a late-seventies GMC pickup, cleave concrete blocks and STILL "shave hair off my arm." Well, maybe, with some small section of the edge you didn't manage to just ruin. Anyone with THIS knife would live through any situation and anyone who did NOT choose this knife was a fool destined to die overnight, with no precipitation and mid-fifties temps.
Yet.... the knife (and sheath) in the photos they posted was always PRISTINE, unused, impeccably clean and very obviously never sharpened. This wonder-knife, capable of all things, was also always posted with "props," like an expensive, big-name pack, gimmicky boonie hat, clean fingerless "tactical gloves," several hanks of (new/unused) paracord, etc. This wonder-knife was usually posted up for sale months later, when the next latest-greatest thing came out, and invariably was advertised as "never carried," "never sharpened," "with box and papers," etc. If they never USED the thing, how could they possibly know how great it was? Was cracking up when I read this , so true, pictures of obviously unused crazy expensive guns/knives etc. in unused crazy expensive never buckled belts/holsters and go on to explain why they are so great as a working gun or knife and why they are superior for stopping grizzlies, polar bears, zombies , skinning numerous buffalo without sharpening |
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