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Originally Posted by bbassi
50 yds, open sights, deer size game. What do you consider "good enough"?

From a solid rest, 2.5 inches. If it won't shoot that well, I'll keep working on loads or sell the gun and start over. If I can't reliably roll a digger squirrel with it shootin' from a rest, I sure shouldn't be shootin' at deer with it offhand.

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Whitworth is correct, 100%. Accuracy first. We don't shoot much over 100 yards and closer, MUCH closer is better.
But a good revolver load should always be accurate. 1/2" at 50 is a good goal but 1" is great.
Here is a revolver group at 200 yards that measures 1-5/16".
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Originally Posted by doubletap
2" at 50 yards is some very fine shooting - many guns and most shooters are not capable of that.

My criteria is that whatever distance I can hit a 9" pie plate every time, under field conditions, is the farthest distance that I'll shoot at deer.


+1 on that. An IDPA target turned sideways looks an awful lot like the body of a deer (it is an 8" circle, but we don't need to be picky). The nice thing about the IDPA target is it does not have a defined aiming point like a most range targets do.

I also have some steel 8" targets I shoot at. On the cheap, 9" paper plates work very well. If I can hit it nearly every time, I consider myself within range of a deer sized critter. Obviously, the range varies depending on position. Standing off hand might be 50 yards; rested over a tree branch might be 75 yards, etc.

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If you know your gun and the loads, the most accurate is always best. We ALL wiggle and shake! If the best you can get from a rest at 50 yards is 10" and then add in wiggle off hand, just what can you hit?
Take groups to 1" at 50 and even a 10" wobble can take a deer but don't expect a deer at 100.
Unless all animals are shot from a rest how does ANYONE consider poor groups "good enough?"
You that think 3" is good from a revolver at 50 yards would turn inside out with the same from a rifle at 100.
There is NOTHING GOOD ENOUGH!

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