Thread: 1 shot groups (cold bore challenge)

Originally Posted by Tentman

Another thing. Breaking position. If you're hunting your position is always going to vary a lot, down low on bipod to shoot over a ridge of rock, up high to get over a tussock, sitting, etc etc.

It would be interesting to test a rifle of "known accuracy" across several positions to see how much it altered. Very difficult to eliminate the shooter variable I guess. I did once read about a US shooting team guy in some sort of military style match shooting who had to make specific sight adjustments according to his position. I can't recall if it was due to the rifle ( a grarand I think) or other factors.

From any position other than flat prone, my shooter error becomes much larger, making it difficult to measure any changes in MPOI - however for example barricade shooting at 500m off a bag from a standing position I can achieve sufficient accuracy that I can't identify any difference in POI vs flat prone - I feel that I can still have a similar % of hits on a target vs prone. I should really go and get some data on this rather than rely on subjective impression.


May be different for other shooters, systems, particularly with higher recoil I'd expect a more pronounced difference, if the shooter isn't consistent at getting behind the rifle from different positions.