Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters BS or truth,LR bullets take a while to stabilize and can shoot better at longer range

There are some guys here that think their rifles shoot better further out as well. I shoot a lot at the 100 yard line for a couple reasons: My club range is 100 yards and we shoot a lot of targets there during competition. We shoot 10 shot groups for score and 10 shots at close range tells us much more about our rifle, load and how well we are shooting. I also shoot a lot of longer range and almost all the time, when I have a 1/2 moa rifle at 100 yards, it is still 1/2 moa at 4,5, 600 and 1,000 yards. Something I find that has a huge impact on group size and POI is the wind. I guess If I used scopes with crappy parallax, I could see that as a huge problem, but the NF scopes I use don't have these issues. Lately I've been shooting silhouette varmint matches where the targets are as far out as 800 yards. One of the smaller targets (a rabbit) is at 600 yards, so it pays to have a rifle that shoots at least 1 moa. Sub moa is even better. The only time you are really going to see a difference in accuracy because of bullet yaw is when the bullet passes through the transonic state and in most cases, that is well beyond a 1,000 yards in most cases. You guys that are seeing some issues don't have your load and rifle dialed in. If you shoot better groups at longer range, that is either a fluke or you have a parallax issue..
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None of my rifles shoot better further out. It doesn't make any sense that they would. And to truly assess something like this, you would have to be shooting in a vacuum and no one here does that..