The odds of a miss/wounding are substantially lowered with the 1” rifle, all else being equal! My math may not be perfect.... but I bet that it’s realistically close! memtb
Sometimes. But mostly not in practical hunting situations.
I don't consider myself an outstanding marksman, but I can put most of my shots into about 7" at 100 yards shooting offhand. Just for grins, assume that's what I do with a superb benchrest rifle that shoots groups almost too small to measure. What is the effect of switching to a 3 MOA rifle, which most of would consider pretty marginal? The math says that groups, adding by the square root of the sum of the squares, will expand to 7.6".
If you can shoot 4" groups off your backpack with the adrenaline pumping, using a 1" rifle, then switching to a 2" rifle will open your groups up to 4.35".
The largest source of variation swamps out the others. That is why, as mathman says, working on the lesser sources of variation is an exercise in futility.
