ORIGINAL: mauser06
tom, no doubt, equipment has a ton to do with it....but a rifle shooting a 1" group at 100yds SHOULD print 2" at 200yds....? 3" at 300yds...?
i dont know...ive kinda always thought so though...im new to the "long range stuff" and im working slowly and learning what i can when i can and will work on equipment as i go. but to me if your hitting 1" left at 100yds you'll be hitting 2" left at 200yds?
once you got a rifle and scope setup and ammo that shoots decent, only thing left is the guy behind the rifle. not overly hard to setup a rifle to beable to shoot 1" groups or so at 100yds these days...
In a vacuum i would say youmay be right (maybe). As you add distance though you add more varables. Forexample, from 0-200 yards you might have a crosswind of 6 MPH. out at 200 to400 the crosswind may be different (more or less) and then from 400-600 it may be different yet again. Additionally, the FPS is decreasing at a rate that is not exactly linear giving you another variable.
Those are just a few of the reasons why 100 = 1" then 600 = 6" is not reality