Swifty Morgan
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Right now I am finishing work on my prone shooting platform. Once I get it in place, I'll get back to testing the AR-15.
I used to think AR rifles were not MOA shooters. I just fed them crap and got scatter gun groups. Then I happened to get colt upper that just happened to group the junk ammo I fed it at less than MOA. Then I figured out all my uppers will do it with load development.Swifty, most AR's are not moa shooters. Unless you pay big $$$ 1.5 moa to 2.5 is considered normal. A couple of factors that need to be researched by you is the type of twist on the rifle and matching the bullet to the twist. Eventually one type of bullet weight will agree with the harmonics of your barrel where the group will tightened.
Another thing that will help is a smooth trigger and trigger control. One of the best ways we did this was to place a dime at the end of the barrel and gently squeeze the trigger. If the dime fell you were not squeezing as gently as you thought. Ninety percent of accuracy comes from trigger control and the other from the sight picture. Practice the dime drill and when you can achieve 10 trigger pulls without the dime falling you have good trigger control.
You are quite correct, but since the op did not mentioned type of AR my statement holds true as well and you can definitely have AR's that shoot sub moa. For example my Rock River Arms I purchased came with a 3/4 moa guarantee at 100 yards, mine does better with factory ammo from Hornady superformance 75 grains BTHP, and gets even tighter with reloads.I used to think AR rifles were not MOA shooters. I just fed them crap and got scatter gun groups. Then I happened to get colt upper that just happened to group the junk ammo I fed it at less than MOA. Then I figured out all my uppers will do it with load development.
I then decided I would go all out and build a fully blue printed upper with a $500+ match barrel. That stupid thing consistently shoots 2" at 400 when I get the wind read right.
If your scope eye is 20-20, the parallex markings will be dang near dead on in quality scopes.My long-range instructors told my class not to pay much attention to parallax-knob markings.
I'm comfortable saying "about 1.5 MOA." It's not like 1.05" and 1.60" look all that similar without a ruler. Or, at 50 yards, 0.5025" and 0.8".