I think I may have learned the secret last week, watching about half a dozen hot long-range shooters use, of all things, Leica laser range-finders. Their technique was simple � put the thing to your eye, take a reading, announce a range � "528 yards," say � and lower the range-finder.
When I tried to range on good, clear objects like boulders and ditch banks, I took several "shots" and got several different distance readings for each of the same fixed "targets." The differences were sometimes as great as 10 yards or more.
Taking just one reading seems to have its merit for giving you confident assurance that you know the distance, right down to within three feet � the level of confidence that Mark Twain described as "the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces."
Applied to shooting, the same technique of
shooting just one shot would surely guarantee teeny li'l "groups" 'way under one minute of angle. And you can be sure that no other one-shot "group" with that rifle will ever be any bigger. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
