Mylhouse:
LMAO...where do I get one?
The rest of you:
Accuracy is kind of a relative thing. My G-35 consistently shoots 5 round groups, standing without support, inside of 3 inches at 25 yards. It took me tens of thousands of rounds over a period of two decades to get good enough to do that day in and day out with either the weak or strong hand from kneeling, barricade and standing. All B.S. put aside, 3 inch groups at 25 yards is very good shooting. However, I know many shooters who can do much better.
In my experience most guys who shoot three inches at 25 with their "3 inch gun", end up shooting about 8 inch groups at fifty from prone and sitting and 10” from the barricade. Shooter induced errors along with the innacurate firearm conspire to put the shooter in the basement. I hate to tell you this, but a six or eight-inch gun at fifty isn’t going to make you competitive in the Master Class (speaking of PPC) and probably won’t cut it going for top honors in Action Shooting (like the Bianchi Cup) either.
Yeah, my 3” at 25 yards Glock is good enough for “combat accuracy”. But compared to my Power Custom Revolvers, Davis PPC revolvers and Clark Long Heavy Slide, the Glock just doesn’t compare and can’t compete. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that the score fired by a shooter holding 8 inches at 50 yards with a gun shooting 3 or 4 inch groups will be much higher than the score fired with a gun capable of firing a 6 inch group. For that matter, assuming a random distribution across the target face, if a shooter shot the same group with a .38 and a .45 the score fired by the .45 will in all likelihood be higher. In a game where the deciding factor is often x-ring count, “combat accurate” guns have no place.
So maybe the average guy doesn’t need real accurate guns, but they are fun. I guess that is why I want all of my rifles to shoot under a minute of angle too.
“Only accurate rifles are interesting”. – Col. Townsend Whelen
Some of us feel the same way about handguns.
Had to add a P.S.
I see several shooters on-line who shoot 2 and 3-inch groups at fifty yards. I am not going to flame anyone or offer up disparaging remarks. I have seen the very best shooters in the world perform and some of them do on occasion churn out a four-inch group at 50 yards. On the contrary, if any of you guys can honestly shoot two and three inch groups at fifty, I still have enough “suck” in the shooting community to get you an invitation to the Bianchi Cup. If you want to go, drop me a line. No pun intended.
[This message has been edited by Ankeny (edited January 05, 2000).]