What is your standard for accuracy?

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Struckat said:
Great post Alan!

Throwing out yanked shots, I may need to shoot 1,000 to complete this LOL.

Deco, have you tried some grit! Like a slight amount of bore paste or such? I’ve used that trick with success.
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Bout near up to weld it in place.

Already junked the slotyed screw for a hex head bolt and nail polish , but gun cleaning softens that and it slips up again .. its worse then a junk scope mount job ..lol. If you get it to stay put like a solid scope job it's on .. bit as you know movment is movment...lol
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Then this movment too boot
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The patch fix
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If hw would of cut the dovetail stright/ squared off at the end instead of like a ramp it then it could bitt up and stop that walking up the barrel. Lol. German engineering, right?
 
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I guess my standard for accuracy is the best I can make it shoot until I run out of gas. All of my guns that live up to my standards fall on their face at some point. Some might be 50 yards, others at all distances out to pretty damn far. But I know I got the most out of each of them and treat them like golf clubs. I have two guns that will pretty much never live up to my true standards but my true standards might be slightly unrealistic for an airgun. But it always gives me something to strive for when I get bored with them and try to push for just a little more. Rest assured, 95% of guys would be over the moon with those two guns if I sold them. So I always think of that to keep me grounded. I don’t brag or post pictures because they prove nothing. I have shared some of my shooting with a member of this forum and he gets to see the good, the bad and the frustrating. Most of us that have been in this game know the real deal when it comes to shooting and tuning. That’s why topics with little groups in decent wind might as well be a topic about shopping carts. I have no interest in them. A topic about shotgun groups or ups and downs, that’s realistic and I do have interest in them.
 
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"What do you (me) consider accurate?"..."EXPERT SNIPERS with their mouths and not their air guns"....Ok....first question....All the PCP's I owned were (are) capable of one ragged hole @ 25-30ys and sub .5" at 50....or I wouldn't have 'em, I got bored with bench shooting years ago, except for testing new gun or something like that and just started shooting from a chair...crossed legs left arm on my right knee...just because it was fun and comfortable...that was in 2010 using a gas ram Theoben SLR 98 long barrel .22
...I did that most days until 2017 when I bought an FX Wildcat Mk1. Penny size groups with the SLR were my norm @ 25y (7 shots full mag)....it didn't have the best trigger but 7 years shooting the same gun I got used to it....when I got the Wildcat with a better trigger and no recoil...two thing became obvious...I was hooked on Bullpups and 7 years shooting that SLR TOUGHT ME HOW TO SHOOT...and the importance of a good. trigger for precision shooting, I could. overlap shots @ 25ys off my knee easily with the WC. Been shooting like that since '17 with everything I have. Posted a pix of me in my retirement rocking chair...after just printing that 5 shot group @30ys with my Veteran AFTER the first 30 shots of day with my Steyr Pro X...just to demonstrate the difference between a "SUPERB" trigger and an also-ran one. "Well done is better than well said" I don't have enough appropriate adjectives to describe my Veterans
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preformance...that 5 shot group is typical 822fps with CP Domes 14.3gr
@ 30y off my knee...been doing it for years with it....Expert...no...just a lot of lead down range...and most importent...getting to know your gun. Benched groups like this aren't note worthy with good PCPs...however...go get your best gun sit down in a chair with no rest but your hands shoot the first 35 shots of the day at 30 yds with two guns and post your results...a little more respect for 30 yards please.
 
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It depends for me. In hunting the range at which I can consistently hit the kill zone. Assuming the power to drop the animal cleanly. Squirrels about a 1 inch circle. Fox a 3 inch circle. The fox is not with a TX200 though as to me it has too little power. With my TX200 I can go 50 yards for heads shot to squirrels. Using my old centerfire rig fox out to 400 yards.

Most of my time is paper punching these days. I use 1 rifle (TX200) and 1 pistol (Beaman P17). I shoot 50-foot targets with both indoors. I use USA 50 targets with the TX200. I expect scores in the mid-90's or higher or I get frustrated. Bench styled here.

The P17 I shoot NRA 50 foot Slow Fire. I expect about 50% 10 and no worse than a 8. I get frustrated by 7's or less. Two hand free hand here.

TX200 at 50 yards I expect about 1 inch groups. At 100 yards 3 to 4 inches. Bench again here.
 
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My standard for accuracy is repeatability after I get the scope POI dialed in. I can only shoot a maximum of 25 yds in the back yard, so I use that as my distance. I like the rifle to be about 3/4 full, little to no wind, and a steady platform off of which to shoot. When all those parameters are met and I am squeezing the trigger, my mental anticipation is a bullseye (hole on hole) . . . if my rifle does not give me that pre-shot mental result, it has not met my standard.
 
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iAMzehTOASTY1 said:
My standard for accuracy:
I aim to have fun👀🤙
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To bad you don't live closer to me.
I have a backyard range out to 160 yards and it's set up for fun!
Paintballs at 50 yards, a steel plate setup just to hear that ZING sound from the ricochet, Bells to ring, Stainless steel pans of different sizes at different ranges, knock downs, spinners, the required empty (Sometimes full) beer cans, paper targets, starlings, and old muffins tins!
Sometimes we tape exploding things on targets. Then there's Peeps, eggs that have gone bad, old saw blades, and anything else that seems like a good target at the moment!
I've even setup my body armour at different ranges just for the heck of it!
 
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Privateer said:
To bad you don't live closer to me.
I have a backyard range out to 160 yards and it's set up for fun!
Paintballs at 50 yards, a steel plate setup just to hear that ZING sound from the ricochet, Bells to ring, Stainless steel pans of different sizes at different ranges, knock downs, spinners, the required empty (Sometimes full) beer cans, paper targets, starlings, and old muffins tins!
Sometimes we tape exploding things on targets. Then there's Peeps, eggs that have gone bad, old saw blades, and anything else that seems like a good target at the moment!
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You have built airgun funland?😍🥴
 
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Privateer said:
There are Trash Pandas that the neighbors depend on me to handle!
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👀easy peasy!
I would chop up hot dogs reaaaly small and about 2pm scatter that where I want them to go(die)🤷‍♂️
Ghillie suit up as the sun sets and prone down(I want to make a blind for my table)
I would then proceed to wait for those pesties or until I saw the sun again🫠
 
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