We were out at range today sharpening couple of rifles for a bunny shoot this weekend.
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gadgetman gets the new-to-me Howa 223 shooting 0.4" at 100 with factory Fiocchi SP 55gr, then calls it quits. Not going to improve easily on that. The Howas really are fine shooters.
Then I put few groups through a little Marlin 795SS semiauto to tweak it. Just 3 shot groups for this purpose, but it shot best of 0.39", and the average of three groups was 0.58". And that's not 50 meters - its 75m. That is very sharp for a wee worker semi - and that's using hunting CCI minimag HV ammo which is not match quality. At 50m that'd probly equate to about a 0.38-39" group average. Hmmm.. must test it at 50 sometime and with better ammos. It is a treat to find accurate hunter 22s, and the little Marlin 22s with their excellent microgroove barrels can be very sharp indeed.