Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Why would a rifle shoot 1/2 MOA at 100 and 2 MOA at 200 yd???

John, didn’t say the bullets destabilized. You have even stated that moving out to the 2-300 increases the error rate. My point has always been that the rifle may not like what the heck he’s feeding it. It may never shoot that bullet and maybe with a little tweak of the load it just might. Did this awhile back with a 700 BDL in 25.06 seeing if a 110 AB would shoot. The sighter was a known load that was used to foul the tube plus I had 6 rounds left over that had to go.
Target 1-5 were all the exact charge just altered the seating depth 5 thou for each except #5 which I altered 10 thou to a jump of 25. All were in the 1-1.5” range @ 100 except 1. Now while all would be minute of deer at 200, reasonably I can expect maybe at best 2.5 to 3” or more @ 200.



I did put one of those 1.5” group loads out to 200 and it looked like this. Still minute of deer, but damn ugly.