Marginal gains and barrel/projectile choice

[JW.]

Thanks LD!!!

1/2" at 55 yards or death!!! I'm getting too old to sit still and need that extra accuracy so I can slack off...

LOL

 

[Motorhead]

Thanks LD!!!

1/2" at 55 yards or death!!! I'm getting too old to sit still and need that extra accuracy so I can slack off...

LOL

So says the young/er guy

 

[Franklink]

Thanks LD!!!

1/2" at 55 yards or death!!! I'm getting too old to sit still and need that extra accuracy so I can slack off...

LOL

Lol, on that "1/2" @ 55 yards comment....

Shot this last night, right that before dark. The groups are not cherry picked, but the conditions sure were. Absolutely still air, and that simply magical humid air that makes pellets fly so straight.

Above the line was sighters.
3, 5 shot groups at 55 yards from three different guns.
Stool and sticks.

Middle right was the recently resealed USFT with the 12 land and groove barrel that I think is an HW. 10.34s @ 890

Bottom left is the Veteran .20 with a very special Sterling LW barrel, 13.73s @ 805

Bottom right is my personal USFT, with the slow twist poly and 10.34s @ an average of 920-925fps. (Need a few clicks right).

Without any wind, they're pretty much neck and neck. And about as good as it gets for field target.

 

[Bramezy]

Lol, on that "1/2" @ 55 yards comment....

Shot this last night, right that before dark. The groups are not cherry picked, but the conditions sure were. Absolutely still air, and that simply magical humid air that makes pellets fly so straight.

Above the line was sighters.
3, 5 shot groups at 55 yards from three different guns.
Stool and sticks.

Middle right was the recently resealed USFT with the 12 land and groove barrel that I think is an HW. 10.34s @ 890

Bottom left is the Veteran .20 with a very special Sterling LW barrel, 13.73s @ 805

Bottom right is my personal USFT, with the slow twist poly and 10.34s @ an average of 920-925fps. (Need a few clicks right).

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Without any wind, they're pretty much neck and neck. And about as good as it gets for field target.

Thats what I expect from all of my guns! Sadly I dont get that though.

 

[thane]

Superior hold to maintain those groupings across multiple rifles.

Outstanding!

 

[Franklink]

Superior hold to maintain those groupings across multiple rifles.

Outstanding!

Thanks Thane. I'm big on ten shot groups, but the first rifles five shot group made me decide to stop @ 5 . And I got lucky and held solid for ten more shots and two gun swaps.

Really good conditions and super accurate guns are the primary factors here. And having shot most of two tins from ft position in the last ten-ish days is part of it as well. All that tinkering on the reseal of USFt #95, and then the barrel testing and comparisons equated to lots of stool/sticks shots.

Still, it's not likely that I could repeat the results.

 

[JW.]

And about as good as it gets for field target.

You can say that again!!

Going to try a 1:17 twist poly this weekend, tweak the 1:36 poly and reshoot the 22 Benchmark barrel and then I have to make a decision of which barrel to run for SOFT (weekend after this one is a local match so I can test it in real air prior to the GP).