Originally Posted by
jnicholes
Apologies for not posting for days. A family emergency came up and I needed to make a trip to Spokane, WA. I am back now.
I’ve been thinking about what you said, about how you don’t care where the bullets hit in relationship to the bullseye, and all that matters is how close together they are.
Question, why is that? I was under the impression that you needed to be accurate on the bullseye as well as have good grouping. Was I wrong?
I am going out today, and I’ll report how it goes.
Jared
Fact: whenever you change something (powder, bullet, even primers), your point of impact will change.
ALL you are looking for when you change powder amounts or try a new bullet is how close the bullets are to each other. That is accuracy. At this stage accuracy has nothing to do with how close to the bullseye they hit, only how close the bullets are to each other.
So I shoot 3 shot groups with each change. Each group will be all over the paper because of the above fact: you changed something. What you are looking for is that three shot group that is smallest. The smallest group is the “sweet spot” for your gun. It is the most accurate load that you have tried so far
Now that you have found an accurate load, NOW you change the sights so it hits the bullseye! THEN you move back to 50 and 100 yards. You usually will have to tweak the sights a little more. Only then, are you ready to go shoot something!