Some ammo is more accurate than others. In pistols, most people won't ever know which is which because properly evaluating the ammunition requires a very accurate pistol and either a very accurate shooter or someone willing and able to test the ammo carefully from a rest.
In my experience, most any ammo that is good enough quality that I would allow its use in my guns produces satisfactory accuracy.
Here's a 10 round group I shot at 15 yards with an STI GP6 using 6 different kinds of budget practice ammo all fired into the same group.
The entire group, all 6 different kinds of ammunition, measured only 2 inches in size.
That's not what I was trying to demonstrate with the test.Your target would have been far more meaningful had you fired six targets with ten round groups of each different cqartridge. That would have given us the relative accuracy, or lack of it, of each different cartridge.
rayway said:So pretty confusing.
I load my own ammunition to customize my load to my shooting requirements. It is no more accurate than I can buy, but neither can I buy a more accurate round than I can load.
There's no guarantee of that even if you fire 49 shots from one box. The next one could still go off the paper.My point is, you fired two or three shots from one box of cartridges. How do you know that the next round won't fly off the paper?
And when you do this with reasonable quality factory ammunition, what sort of variance do you see from one box/brand of ammo to the other? I see very little. So little that the average shooter will never notice the difference. Not in accuracy nor in point of aim (as long as the same bullet weight is used and the power level is reasonably similar).A ten round group will give you a better idea of what to expect from that box. Better still, fire several ten round groups to get the degree of relative accuracy.