Oh no...NOT 200! Never even tried shooting that far out with a scoped rifle. I can say that I can hit the black on a USMC "D" target about 3-5 out of five times with an M16A2 at 200 meters in the offhand.

Looking at my post I omitted the "at 100 yards part." I'm no Carlos Hathcock, and I didn't mean to make you think I was.

Sorry for the misunderstanding, I wasn't trying to blow smoke up anyone's a$$.

However, I will disagree with you about the 2" group at 200 yards part. I know people who would consider a rifle that, with handloaded ammo, only shot 2" groups at 200 yards a POS. I'm in the process of saving up for a benchrest rifle, and the guy who inspired me to try benchrest shooting had a Savage 12BVSS in .308 Win that would consistantly shoot groups that could be completely covered by a quarter at 200 yards. And he wasn't happy with it! After shooting a couple of groups to zero the scope he proceeded to shoot golf balls off the birm with startling regularity (8 for 10 easily). But remember, he was shooting off a very stable varmint rest from a shooting bench, and not under field conditions.

Mike


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Edited by - driftrider on 11/01/2002 23:40:10