Thread: 3 shot groups are useless!

Originally Posted by Tentman

Well today was a bit of a "hard day in the office" for several of the "three shot boys" and just about everyone else.

So we ran an open day at the range, rock up, fire a validation shot or group at 100M, then back to our 600Y mound, which is 571M to gongs. Wind was very light, a weather station about 1.3KM away showed 6-9 km/h coming over shooters right shoulder, often no wind at the firing point.

36 shooters turned up, with a fair range of rifles but quite a bit of "higher end stuff" in calibres from 6mm Dasher to 338Lap, a lot of PRC's, belted mags and the like in the list.

So how many shooters were able to put 3 consecutive shots on a 6" gong (they had multiple options of bigger ones to practise on, and no time pressure), I can tell you it wasn't very many but humor me with your guesses if you like. I just chatted with them (too many shooters turned up for me to have a go, we three RO's had our hands full managing) and guess what - 100 % of the guys I talked with were in the 3 shot crowd.

That was because us 3 shot guys are a pretty relaxed bunch. The 5 plus shot guys would have all been too busy fussing over their gear and fiddling to chat.