What is an inaccurate gun?

It's not always the shooter, sometimes it is the gun.
I had a Colt AR-15 that was hopeless. Nothing I did ever improved it. My choice was replace the barrel or sell the gun. I sold it because Colt branded AR-15's were going for a premiume. Since then I have built or bought several AR-15's and they all shot great. So, yes, some guns are dudes.
 
I owned a KG-9 if any of you recall those things. Mine was semiautomatic, sorta :o

It was a small 9mm handgun that looked like a submachinegun and it fired from an open bolt using straight blow-back as a method of function.

The bolt was heavy in order to slow down the rate of fire in the full auto versions and this bolt was the same. You have to pull the bolt to the rear where it locks back and is waiting for you to pull the trigger to make it fire. the problem is when you pull the trigger that big heavy bolt is slammed forward and before it can actually shoot it has already thrown your aim way off target.

I also fired a Mac-10 in .45 in semi-auto mode trying to hit a brick. I learned that if I aimed high enough over the brick the bolt movement would put the round on target. It took about 8 shots to get that one down but with practice I might could have gotten good at it.
 
I had a scope come undone inside th etube so every time I fired it the optic shifted making my target look like swiss cheese. A new scope fixed it right up.
 
Maybe guns get a lot blame for inaccuracy and the shooter not enough - but when I shoot a real acccurate rifle I notice immediately. It's much easier to work on your technique when misses aren't random.
 
We also have to agree that "accuracy" is the size of the group, not the location. I've seen a lot of inquiries about getting adjustable sights for an "inaccurate" handgun, when the problem is the group printing out of the bull.
Accuracy should be linked to the expected target. I shoot at round, 8" targets, so any gun that can hit within 4" of the point of aim out to about 50 yards is accurate enough. If my target was only 4", then I'd have to either have a more accurate gun, or confine my shooting to 25 yards.
One rule of thumb for handgun shooting is, the target is in range when it appears to be the same width as the front sight. Even a gun that's only "minute of pie plate" accurate will suffice under those circumstances.
 
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