The Cooper test target was obscene
Coopers are great rifles. I've had two rimfires, no centerfire. Just remember, those groups are shot on a 40+ yd. indoor range, not at the standard 100 yds, as could well be the implied assumption with any published rifle group. For quite a while, I thought Coopers had amazing, near supernatural 100 yd. groups until I learned the details. I think it would be more forth coming if the company acknowledged the actual yardage on the target, but that information is conspicuously absent on every Cooper factory target I've seen. Those guns will generally print around half inch at a hundred, which is still pretty good.
I can't say that Cooper intentionally uses this as a marketing ploy, but if I had assumed 100 yds, I wouldn't think I was the only one. Sometimes it's what you don't say and how you don't say it...
DF
