Always amazes how solid many are in their beliefs, when they
have no solid reason. Ballistic discussions with casual shooters
brings this out quickly.
Secondly,
the more I learn about the factors that effect accuracy and ballistics,
The more it becomes amazing that it is so easy to hit even basketball
size targets at 200 yards.
With anything.
Mechanically. Not considering human operator screw ups.
The thing is, so many of these factors are insignificant for the vast
majority of shooters. Even most serious hunters and recreational shooters.
Tolerance stacking may be causing them misses when they try to
stretch out. But for many, they didn't expect 100% hits. So some
misses are figured to be shooter error. Some hits, may actually be
the shooter zigging when the shot was zagging.
20+ years ago a friend and I started on a longer range 22 mission.
We were soon frustrated by misses, that we didn't think were
shooter error.
Using decent to high quality sporters we then gathered up a bunch of ammo
and tried two guns with on a calm morning.
It soon became apparent that we were pissing in the wind with our
setups and needed to upgrade to get the mechanical accuracy we
wanted. Its no fun not knowing if your hits or misses were
equipment or you.
Pretty much gave up there. No desire to dump the necessary
cash into it. Now, I believe the equipment is readily.
Big difference between 95+% of 22 use and stretching one way out
there and expecting consistent results.
