shootbrownelk
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My Winchester model 70 stainless classic 30.06 CRF using 150 gr. Barnes TTSX bullets and IMR 4350 or IMR 4064...It shoots minute of antelope, deer and elk lungs @ 100yds.
Hawg: Custom 1903 A3 30-06. 57 grains of IMR 4350 with a 168 grain Sierra HPBT Match. One hole, no egg shaping, just a neat round .30 caliber hole.
The masking taped square below the impacts contains a chemical handwarmer. That was my target as I was sighting in using a thermal scope.
Whenever this topic comes up I think I am doing pretty good with a couple of 1/2" groups I have shot until I read the posts about .11" groups and .00" groups and groups so mall the target owed the shooter a fraction of an inch.
Yeah it's easy to always want more but I think it's healthy to ask yourself, given a rifle that will pour shot after shot into a half inch, what exactly are you going to shoot at that that rifle will not hit? I suppose 400yd ground squirrels would be iffy. And competition is a whole different mentality but I believe the military's standard for precision rifles is 1 MOA. For practical purposes anything more is icing on the cake.
There are some SWAT teams that need, and shoot 2" at 600+ yards in life / death situations.