Barrel break in, how many rounds?

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but it can work if you have a vice or something to lock it into.
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I don't think so.

Rifles recoiling in machine rests or accuracy cradles launch bullets at a different angle to the line of sight than when they're shoulder fired. There's typically about 1 to 2 MOA difference in windage settings from a shoulder fired rifle sighted in as it rests atop something on a bench compared to sighting it in from standing. Smaller differences exist between artifical rests and standing, kneeling, sitting and prone.
 
Metal God, sorry 'bout "killing" you wherever you are. Too bad you expired before answering my question about calling shots. Now I'll never know; nor will anybody else reading this thread.

Do you know what 'calling your shots' means?
 
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That is true, depending on the rifle and what it is fired on, e.e. hard bench or rolled up towel/blanket. Understand that I am not advocating it, just saying that it can get you close to there. As I said I've never been able to just fire one shot anyway regardless of whether or not it worked. So many hunters sight in from a benchrest and then never consider a change in zero when shooting offhand or agains the side of a tree etc. Truthfully I am glad that so many actually take the time to shoot at a range, many many many don't, they either assume the rifle is still "on" or maybe shoot at a pop can at 25 yards and if it hits it or near it they will say, "hell thats good enough to kill a deer", sometimes they are right sometimes I get to hear their story about the one that got a way.
 
If calling your shot is anything more then telling everybody around wear your bullet will impact then shooting and hitting that very spot . No I do not know what calling your shot means .:)
 
none, barrel break in is a myth. any rifles are manufactured that are guaranteed to be sub MOA out of the box, how many of them do you think that the company bothered taking the time to break in the barrel?
 
Calling our shot was a fairly important step of the coaching on our rifle team way back in college. The AMU visited for a few days and they were pretty "pushy" about calling your shot. Had time to see the trigger break inyour mind again while completing the follow through, might have been part of the point too.
 
I have a book written by Glenn Newick "The Ultimate In Rifle Accuracy" that discusses the "one shot and clean" method. Five to seven times. This guy is a competitive bench rest shooter, so I have some deference for him. I don't consider 5-7 shots a waste of ammo.
 
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Calling a shot means seeing where the sights are aimed at on the target when the round fires. If the sight's aligned two inches to the right of the desired place, the shot would be called 2 inches out at 3 o'clock. If you're using a 100 yard Smallbore rifle target with a 4 inch 9 ring and this happened, it would be called a wide 9 at 3.

If the bullet struck 1 inch below and 1 inch right of where you called the shot, adjust the sight to move impact 1 inch up and 1 inch left. So, where's the next shot gonna go relative to its call?

A good rifle shooter can call within 1/4 moa where a shot goes with a 1/4 moa rifle and ammo.
 
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