What's your favorite shot group you've had?

It is a "CUSTOM" from TJ's being made via Hammer Forging process ;)

Indeed! The amount of groove surface and the great finish would require a very special reamer. Hammering a polished bore around a mandrel is an awesome process and that bore is impeccable. A real work of art!

My little Cometa has a hammer forged barrel. It's silky in there. No tool chatter or tight spots that I can feel or see. From my limited experience it's a better barrel than the average reamed and polished tube.

I'm not sure about my 5 groove Snider. I don't see chatter in it. I have no idea how it was rifled.

Yours is a funky beast with those three lands. It obviously offers superb precision. What a hoot man! You just don't see stuff like that every day.
 
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Indeed! The amount of groove surface and the great finish would require a very special reamer. Hammering a polished bore around a mandrel is an awesome process and that bore is impeccable. A real work of art!

My little Cometa has a hammer forged barrel. It's silky in there. No tool chatter or tight spots that I can feel or see. From my limited experience it's a better barrel than the average reamed and polished tube.

Yours is a funky beast with those three lands. It obviously offers superb precision. What a hoot man! You just don't see stuff like that every day.
It came to me from AKA: Troy Hammer ( Hugh Jorgensen ) ? on spelling ? .... He paid good money to have the mandrill fabricated & owns the rights to there manufacturing / selling at this juncture having TJ's in KY build a few of them for testers. Don't think there are more than a 1/2 dozen if that out there as "Hugh" had to semi shelf the project when going to work for PA in Ohio. Last we spoke a few weeks back the project and these wicked barrels might find there way into limited availability in the near future.
 
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I never saw the point in people showing their best groups ever, random stuff happens, I actually own a POS rifle that is a true 4+++ moa waste of money that the manufacturer said was in spec and would not fix it(an expensive browning), I fired one 3 round magazine through it that was just about 1" even, sh_t happens, never did again with that rifle or even under 3.5", just a random occurence. I'm more interested in what is the worst that can be expected with a rifle/ammo combination no excuses, both pcp and powder burners. At 100 yards, I only own two rifles that are true sub MOA, and a handful that are real close. On my accurate powder burners, my definition of worse expected is a 20 shot group fired 2 at a time over weeks or months and vastly different temperatures, cold bore shot and follow up. My custom Gre'Tan with factory nosler partition passed that test from 0F (freezer all night with ammo) and 40-90F naturally with a 0.6" group in my hands, my 7mag Sako passed barely at .09x". Nothing else I own that is interestingly accurate can do sub MOA in real life in my hands, I'd be willing to bet some real benchrest shooters I know could move some of my other ones to sub moa, but not in my hands and that is the only thing that matters. Doing 9 out of 10 5 shot groups sub MOA isn't a sub MOA rifle or other weapon, unfortunately that is not what people report, especially on the internet. My uragan compact .22 comes close, but weather differences of 30+degrees F kill it at 50 yards it truly cannot be counted on to be under .5", real close, but not there. Honestly, just a puff of wind when it is calm at the wrong time will kill it every time in one sitting. 90% of my use is pick up weapon, shoot 1 round and kill something, occasionally more than one round and kill more than one something, where I live that is almost a weekly occrurence. Real life accuracy is the only thing that matters to me.
Your point is well taken, but I don't believe that folks are claiming that their tiny groups are any more than just that; a screamer group that might or might not happen again. Nothing wrong with being pleased with it. As a former benchrest competitor, I can say for certain that most BR shooters have a bunch of little groups recorded, but only a handful have a bunch of championships recorded. My smallest 100 yard group measured .061". My next target was .400" and the next one even worse. So, the rest of my shooting was strictly recreational because I was out of the running. It's meaningless, but I still have that target.
 
Favorite group shot?

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About 2 years ago and it was probably the only one I shot and recorded that I remember taking, at least that stood out. After the third shot I totally chickened 🐔 out shooting anymore because it looked too good to ruin.😆

This was at the 200 yard line at Pala shooting range.


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The thing I don't remember was that they were NSA 38 gr or the 40 gr Altaros.

Allen
 
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