Triggered Precision Machine - Just How Accurate Is Your Rifle???? Rifle Accuracy Claims Explained 

Welcome aboard! Thank you for watching!

I agree completely. Buying a rifle from a reputable company or rifle builder is more important. Spot on with the reloading comment as well. 👍🏼👍🏼

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My pleasure.

First off, it sounds like you have a fantastic shooting rifle. You also bring up a great point.... Things change in the first 100 or so rounds in a rifle. Machining features in the barrel from the chambering and rifling process get ironed out, and I've found the rifle becomes more firmly seated in the chassis stock (action recoil lug to recoil lug pocket in the stock). It's very, very common to see not only an increase in velocity over the first 100, but also a dramatic decrease in group size.

Sounds like you have found what works for you, that's what it's all about! Thanks for watching and chiming in!

I know personally, if I set out to shoot my best 5-shot group and the first 3 are really really good, the nerves get goin and funning things happen 😂 Takes a little more effort to calm the nerves and dial in. Good luck on the challenge!

If you are shooting factory ammo, its most likely that.

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@@worksonjunk yeah, still using factory loads. Rifle likes the Hornady 143 ELD-X Precision Hunter best. Don’t have all the equipment to reload so just saving brass at this point.

Awesome! I hope to see a tight 20-shot group from one of those rifles in the spring challenge!

I run the highest power the conditions will allow. Having higher mag lets you place the crosshairs / aiming point in a very repeatable position with each shot. Guys go out and shoot itty bitty groups with low power scopes all the time, but having more power makes it much easier in my opinion. A fine reticle and high magnification are magic for this purpose.

That's a great point. I think it just all comes down to harmonics, honestly. The factory ammo manufacturers try their best to develop a load that is, first of all, universally safe in any properly setup rifle, and second, gives "usuable accuracy" in most rifles. With the individual rifle harmonics, it's the same principle when you develop a great shooting load for your rifle. You could take that exact load to another rifle with the same chamber and it may or may not shoot as well. You start changing things like barrel length, barrel contour, muzzle devices, different stocks / chassis, and you will see more significant differences in optimum reload for each rifle.

It was interesting. Like I mentioned, I didn't much more validity in a 20 shot group vs. a bunch of 3-shot groups, still interesting information. I'm going to do a bit more on this. HAHA, I think we are all the weak link!

I hope you have enough of that good 6CM ammo for the contest! 😁

@@triggeredprecisionmachinellc -- I have about 100 rounds of that left.

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Same, I've had several get deleted after I post them. Must be a glitch.

@@triggeredprecisionmachinellc yeah, I wasn’t even saying anything besides groups sizes and what not. You’re getting to them, keep it up🤣

I went over the whole "accuracy" vs "precision" thing in the video, unfortunately we commonly see these being misused. We see "accuracy guarantees" which are really "precision guarantees." This is how it's been for as long as I've been around and generally accepted. Like you said, as long as you have a good scope, and good mounting system, you can have accuracy to some degree. Precision is what takes work. I 100% agree with your opinion on accuracy claims. The problem with 10-shot groups as I found out, is the pencil barrels and hunting contour barrels will almost always have some degree of temperature related shift, so you are left with either monitoring the barrel temp for all 10-shots, or not worrying about it and incorporating this shift into the measurement of precision which may or may not accurately represent the rifles potential, depending on how you perceive things. I think it all depends on what you are doing... hunting rifles, a 5 shot group or several three shot groups make sense to me. For a comp rifle 10, 15 or 20 shot groups make sense. Sub MOA rifles is what I would call them as well. Good enough for my games! Great points! Thank you for taking the time to chime in.

It seems "sub moa" is very common these days. We need a term to signify something that's better than sub moa

It's thrown around so much it hardly means anything, honestly. When I see claims of "1/2 MOA" or similar, I see that as confidence from the manufacturer that things were done right. The rifle components are top notch, the craftsmanship was as good as can be, and the rifle is capable of good things. Whether or not my trigger pulling or ammo will match that is a whole other story 😂