Accuracy in your area
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01/23/22 09:39 PM
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Wolfdog91
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So im just curious about this as kinda .. regional type of thing I guess. Where y'all are from do folks consider ,like a good shooter ? Not talking about y'all personally just what y'all seen from otheres.See down here in my area the common thing is guns are sighted in like 25yd or 50 and if you can impact somewhere on a piece of copy paper @ 100yd your more then qualified for the deer woods. Like I remember at get togethers someone would take a 5gal bucket full of water and put it at the end of the cow pasture ( like 250 max) and if you could hit that you where considered some kinda sniper or something lol Saw alot of money changing hands over them matches lol . Bore sighting at the pawn shop then heading straight to the woods is suuuuuper common as well. Actually gotten it along of arguments at the range when I was doing load testing. Especially with my .243 But I see guys out west and it's like if your from out that way ,your gun is gonna be shooting a ragged hole. That's just the standard out there. You know popping coyotes @300 is like a average thing it seems. Then in UP it seems to be kinda a mix of the two . Anyway wanted to see what it was like for everyone
Last edited by Wolfdog91; 01/23/22 10:37 PM.
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Re: Accuracy in your area
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01/23/22 10:10 PM
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Marty
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aim small and miss small.....I do not pay attention to others shooting, just worry about myself. I shoot well or fix the issue.
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Re: Accuracy in your area
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01/23/22 10:17 PM
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I don't think its regional as much as personal preference. Unless you are talking open country and such. My neighbor hunts with a scoped 270 ..... I find that if you want to take a shot here at 100 yards or over, ya need a weed eater in your hunting pack so I shoot a old mod 94 with peep sights in 30-30 flavor around here. whatever floats yer boat I guess. Being able to hit a soda can at a 100 yards is good enough for putting meat in the freezer so its good enough for me when I am hunting. when I have my zen time at my range it has to be sub MOA so i take other rifles along for those games and the 30-30 stays on the boat then
Let's go Brandon
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Re: Accuracy in your area
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01/23/22 10:18 PM
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We have an assortment of poke & hope guys and gals out here as well, disgusting. Once had a guy say his father told him when hunting elk a five gallon bucket on its side at a hundred yards was plenty good enough. I asked him if he knew he was gonna get shot would he rather be shot in the brain or in the gut with no possible medical help. Said he had never thought about it that way.
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Re: Accuracy in your area
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01/23/22 10:27 PM
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Willy Firewood
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Depending on the gun and cartridge: Some are zeroed at 100 and I shoot max 1/2” groups, usually ragged holes. I am confident killing an animal out to 300 yards. Others are zeroed at 200 and I shoot max of 1” groups. I am confident killing an animal out to 500 yards.
My 12 ga. slug gun will shoot 1”-2” groups out to 250 yards. It is a bit of a hot rod. I am confident making one shot clean kills on deer out to 200 yards.
In my state deer gun season, the number of shots in ratio to missed, wounded, and killed deer my estimate is that many people are shooting between 50 and 100moa.
Fortunately I grew up in a rural area long ago where I was able to shoot a lot. Plus, .22 ammunition was 40 cents a box. A buddy and I constantly coached each other shooting rifles, handguns, shotguns, longbows, recurves, and later compounds.
In college, the ROTC had a competition pistol and rifle team and a nice range. While not in ROTC so not eligible for the team, I shot practice with them. Many days, I had a handgun in my book bag. That probably is no longer permitted.
When coon hunting I didn’t want my dogs injured so the rule was one shot kills. I used a Ruger Mark II target model with a 5.5” bull barrel. My wife was plenty good with her handgun, but lacked the confidence so she used a Marlin 39 carbine. One January night, my son “winged” a big old scarred-up boar. It fell from the top of a tall White Oak, bounced once, and the fight was on between it and my two best female English hounds. I waded in and scooped up the coon by the back of the neck and shot it in the head. It had nicked a vein in the ear on the red English hound so blood was all over her head and neck. We went home and gave her a bit of a bubble bath, put on medicine, and slipped on a section cut from panty hose to stop the ear shaking. I gave her some treats and tucked her into bed.
I am very fortunate to belong to two private gun clubs that have different types of facilities and ranges. They are very impressive and provide fantastic resources for a very reasonable cost.
FRAC LIVES MATTER
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Re: Accuracy in your area
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01/23/22 10:47 PM
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Can't hunt with rifles in my state (except .22 for squirrels). So most rifle shooting is done at the range or in back yards. So we are mostly punching paper so there is some attention to accuracy. Since you can't put food on the table with a rifle, accuracy is the only reason to go out and shoot. The guys I know typically sight in at 100yds - 200yds. A lot of guys sight in AR's at 300yds, although there are few places to shoot that distance.
If you're a "good" shooter, shooting in the top 20% here, you're probably shooting 1MOA consistently.
-Ryan
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Re: Accuracy in your area
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01/24/22 07:13 AM
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As a kid, when I was learning to shoot a rifle for deer in the U P, the goal was to be able to consistently hit a six inch circle from 75 yards standing, without a rest. We didn't shoot more than we needed; ammo was not to be wasted. Shooting was only a small part of learning to hunt.
Steve WTA NRA
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Re: Accuracy in your area
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01/24/22 07:52 AM
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I know a LOT of shooters incapable of MOA shooting.
I like to sight in my hi-powers/ test loads/ break in new guns, at 300 yards. I shoot over a pickup hood in a row crop field when the ground is froze so I can drive back and forth. Shooting into a hedgerow with a rail road track behind it. Track bed has been built up about ten feet and makes a good back stop. I like to shoot on windless days. Friend has a real nice range in his back yard but I dont like to be a pest. He invites me over a couple times a year. Has a bench, set up for clay pigeons, 22's. Really nice.
If I can put bullets into a tea cup saucer size circle at that distance I am happy . So I guess MOA is working for me and always has.
My 22 hornet is sighted in at 100 and my 223 at 200. 22 rifles at 50 and I am happy with a pistol that will shoot a quarter at 25 from a rest. ( only a few of mine will)
I started shooting/hunting in Colorado and now I live in KS so its easier to put meat in the freezer and fur on a stretcher if you can shoot to 400 yards.
Friend I used to coon hunt with bought a new 22 rifle every year cause the one he had wouldnt shoot. We would go coon hunting and he couldnt shoot a coon in the head at 20 yards sitting still in a tree. It was funny. So I did all the shooting. He never missed with a shotgun. Grew up in western KS with shotguns hunting birds squirrels and rabbits. Never learned to aim instead of point. Got more than a little mad if anybody tried to give him pointers.
I think a lot of boys and men don't want lessons even from an accomplished shooter. Girls dont seem to have that problem. I think that is why so many women are great shots.
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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