I recently bought a nice, lightly used rifle and a higher end used scope (separate purchases). My first 2 range trips showed a lot of promise with every hand load I tried shooting 1.25" or better at 100 yd, and several shooting 3/4" or better for 5 shots. Yesterday I moved out to 200 yd with a load that had shot very well previously at 100yd and things went haywire. I shot 8 shots and had a 5" pattern. Frustrated, I moved back to my 100 target and rattled off a 4 shot group just under 3/4".
Personally I have had that happen with 3 rifles guaranteed 1/2 or better bought new. Fugging load they shot the target with beat the guarantee @ 100 fell the hell apart at the 2 and 3. Tweak here and there bingo. Had deer rifles do the same thing. Great at the 1 suck at the 2 and 3.
Nosler says expect, not guaranteed as I posted before. And I didn’t mis-read.
