Originally Posted by GreatWaputi
A guy I used to work with who shot competition for many years told me that sighting in at 25 yards works best with rounds that break the sound barrier because they're moving so fast they're less disturbed by the atmosphere and gravitational pull at 25 yards than at say 100 yards, so it's the only real way to test their true accuracy potential. The more I think about, the more I think he was on to something.


Your friend was talking about GROUPING ABILITY- not point of impact or zero at longer ranges..

I don't disagree with him as to pure accuracy testing but it still has nothing to do with where the actual zero will be at 100 yards ..

To all gunmaker critics-
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.."- Teddy Roosevelt