HALLAUSTIN
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I know theres some pretty skilled people on here and wanted to see what other people group like at 50 yards.
How do you group at 50 yards?
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g.willikers
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Thanks to practicing at 50 yards every range trip, I can generally keep most all rounds well within an 8" circle, standing unsupported, with centerfire handguns.
And within a 6" circle for .22 handguns.
There's often a couple of bullseye competitors there who put that to shame, though.
But that's only with slow and deliberate shots.
For faster shooting, the same results at 25 yds are about the limit.
And within a 6" circle for .22 handguns.
There's often a couple of bullseye competitors there who put that to shame, though.
But that's only with slow and deliberate shots.
For faster shooting, the same results at 25 yds are about the limit.
Hammerhead
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A few years ago I shot a few <5" @ 50yd groups (my group size goal) with a .38 Super 1911 and a USP .45. After a car accident and a minor stroke I've recovered enough to reach the <5" mark again. Last week I shot two consecutive 4-3/4" groups sighting in a new target load with my single action .357.
I'm hoping to shoot IHMSA Field Pistol again next spring. 25, 50, 75 and 100 yard half scale silhouettes from the standing position. It's a lot of fun and it will humble most of us.
I'm hoping to shoot IHMSA Field Pistol again next spring. 25, 50, 75 and 100 yard half scale silhouettes from the standing position. It's a lot of fun and it will humble most of us.
The accuracy level you can get shooting off a rest is far better than what a person can do offhand. Handguns fired from a rest are capable of rifle accuracy. Handguns fired offhand, it is the person holding them that is the limiting factor.
With irons I think I am doing good keeping 4 to 5 shots on a 12" gong target offhand at 50 yards.
With an aimpoint on top, I have kept them all on target, but it is very easy to miss.
The guy who shoots this pistol offhand, he told me he shot a little bird standing on his 50 yard target, one hand offhand. Poor birdy.
With irons I think I am doing good keeping 4 to 5 shots on a 12" gong target offhand at 50 yards.
With an aimpoint on top, I have kept them all on target, but it is very easy to miss.
The guy who shoots this pistol offhand, he told me he shot a little bird standing on his 50 yard target, one hand offhand. Poor birdy.
The only time I ever tried a 50 yard shot with any handgun was a few times in a couple of IPSC matches, YEARS ago. I remember hitting an 8" steel plate with a Colt Government Model, those times, but I don't remember how many shots it took.
IIRC, all it took was a steady hand, and my eagle eyes, and just a touch more front sight, and those plates rang like the bells of St. Mary's.
IRL, they probably looked like they were being straffed by a Cobra gunship.
IIRC, all it took was a steady hand, and my eagle eyes, and just a touch more front sight, and those plates rang like the bells of St. Mary's.
IRL, they probably looked like they were being straffed by a Cobra gunship.
Winchester_73
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Who rechambered your model 15 K frame 38 special combat masterpiece to 41 mag? Was it expensive? 5 shot cylinder?
I think instead you have a model 58 in 41 magnum. At least in the photo, that appears to be what you have.
Cheapshooter
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Depends!
Ruger Super Blackhawk From a rest, and that's the only way I fire it at game, 3"
T/C Contender 14" 223 Remington, under an inch. Same gun, Super 14 35 Remington, an inch. Both sighted in @ 100 yds.
Any of my CCW or SD handguns. Why try?
Ruger Super Blackhawk From a rest, and that's the only way I fire it at game, 3"
T/C Contender 14" 223 Remington, under an inch. Same gun, Super 14 35 Remington, an inch. Both sighted in @ 100 yds.
Any of my CCW or SD handguns. Why try?
Redhawk5.5+P+
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Pretty well with my 638. Usually 4 of 5 I get in CM. What ever happened to the lost flyer? But it always seem to be the last shot total miss.
Jayhawkhuntclub
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Nothing personal, but this is an exageration. Now I have shot 1/2" 5 shot 50 yard groups with a scoped and rested single six (my best group with that gun). But to say that handguns are capable of rifle accuracy is stretching the truth as a general rule. Now both rifles and pistols have a lot of variation. I've owned several rifles that couldn't out shoot some of my pistols. It can happen, but it is the exception to the rule. On average most handguns are simply not capable of the accuracy of a good rifle. The Ransom Rest has proven this. Then you put a human behind the trigger and it gets less even.