Not that ole chuckie is so far off beat, just a lot of his summations don't match what I've actually done in the field or the range. Range shooting is controlled, you don't have to go to the range on a windy day, you don't have to go to the range and shoot in snow or rain, you don't have to go to the range and shoot off a stump. Field shooting is when it happens where it happens. Not enough people practice prone, kneeling, standing shooting positions. Because if you want that bull of a lifetime you may at one time have to throw that rifle to your shoulder and take a shot down through the trees at hundred plus yards. Or quickly set up for a 400+ yard shot on a hill side where the elk are already on the move and the bull might stop just one time before he crests that ridge. Yeah in a perfect world I can do amazing things with a rifle. In the field that's not a guarantee. I myself practice just as much off hand shooting as I do on a bench.

Now onto the MOA's that's all we talk about anymore moa moa moa. Most of my rifles do shoot under 1 MOA at 100yds. If you don't then get on the reloading bench and play around until they do too. But here's the thing from what I've seen on the range I can get a group at 200 yards that's not much different than 100 yards. 300 yards shooting a 2 inch group is pretty common if not the standard or under. 400 yards 3" or slightly larger is common. 500 yards 6" groups all day long. So where's all these multiplying MOA's.

I'll tell you what it is. If you got a rifle that shoots 1" or under groups at 100yards the rest is Trigger pull, breathing, and shooting position on the rifle every time you shoot. Most rifle will out shoot the shooter 10 to 1. And the biggest group killer of them all concentration.

While I don't want to disagree with chuck but I see it match after match shoot after shoot and some of these great shooters are poor boys with the basic savage 110's.

In the field I find most can't take a shot unless conditions are perfect or beyond perfect. That's where all sportsman need to practice. Once the rifle is zero'd and you know your drops at ranges get off that bench and practice for hunting conditions.