Thread: The secondhand rifle market

Originally Posted by camenzie

I’d say most people can’t shoot a 10 shot 1 MOA group with their hunting rifles and that’s a tough pill to swallow for them regardless of whether it’s the gun or the shooter. That’s why no matter how many times gimp mentions it lots of people still only talk about their three shot (cherrypicked) cloverleafs’. This is why people rarely (from what I’ve seen) post more than three shot groups when they’re selling their rifles.

More like most rifles won't do it, and when you put people behind a genuinely precise rifle the "shooter error" disappears mysteriously, but never mind, people are slowly catching on and I just have to treat claims of precision without real evidence as unreliable.



Interestingly while it's a buyer's market to some degree, the expected price floor from sellers still seems too high to me in many cases but there are still bargains to be found if you're patient