Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting Acceptable accuracy

1.5 inch at 100 keeps you in 6 inches at 300. More than sufficient for deer. elk, hogs and coyotes. Even works on dall sheep and caribou. If one wants. .50, .75, or 1in at 100, good for them. Just not that important to me because I don't take long shots.

You need to be able to hit a paper plate.

Sounds easy, right? Add some wind, field rest, heavy heart beat, excitement and it gets very hard.

This is why 6” groups in practice simulating field conditions are a nice judge of max distance.

You can get good enough at shooting that a <1 moa, reasonable weight gun, with good bc bullets becomes probable to hit that plate with at 300-500 yd shots.

Shooting is a mental and physical game - however if your head isn’t straight you can’t shoot well.

So 1) your accuracy at distance to be proficient must = or be smaller than your target size (target being what is your kill zone on your target).

Some people never get past that question which astounds me, on a deer one who shoots for vital zone “center of mass” has a big target so the pie plate thing works, being able to hit something smaller just makes you more confident.

Picking a smaller target say a squirrel - that is a heck of a small plate now isn’t it ?