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probably more 1/4 inch rifles than shooters on this forum

I knew you were.

You need to post 15 pictures of targets showing repetition or it’s a 2-3” gun.

By the way TenX....that's a sweet looking rig. Classic cool!

Beautiful custom pre 64, regardless of how it shoots..

Nice rifle!

Thanks guys. I built the stock but had the checkering done and of course had the engraving done. I don't have much talent if any but certainly not those.
Phil

How do you measure to thee decimal places on a group of bullet holes?

Measures outside edge to outside edge, then subract bullet diameter to get center to center

Which assumes the holes are full bullet diameter.

I got a .257 Roberts that's almost a 1/4 inch rifle...until I fire the second time, then it's bigger.

Flintlocke
Me too

On a different forum many moons ago, some old codger claimed he could put 5 shots into a coke bottle lid at 100 yards, "all day long," with a Savage 22lr. I asked him what kind of rest he was using, and he said he was usually shooting with his elbow propped on the hood of his truck.

And, they never are. That's why measuring in the way the op describes is considered "optimistic", at best.

By the way TenX....that's a sweet looking rig. Classic cool!

TenX - I’d personally say you can call that rifle anything you’d like but I’d start with “beautiful”!! Nice rifle and it’s a shooter too - now just need it beside a nice buck!

PennDog

Was the caliber of the bullet subtracted from the overall group measurement?

Bullet diameter subtracted from the leaded edge of rhe two shots widest apart is the quickest, down and dirty way. Certainly not the way benchrest is scored or necessarily the most accurate as bsa1917hunter and mathman have eluded to.
Phil

Understood - I answered without reading their comments.

It’s a shooter for sure & yeah IMO you could say you have a 1/4” rifle because it’s been accomplished