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Originally Posted by longrange1947
Biggest source of error? The shooter. Next is gun and ammo. Look at the statistical error of a .5 moa shooter, .5 moa gun, and a .5 moa ammo. Now change any one of them to 1 moa. Now change anyone of them to the normal hack shooter of 4 moa. Take a round and leave it in the chamber too long or out in the hot sun, you have induced an elevation error. Let the rifle set out in the sun to long and the top of the barrel heats more than the bottom. Top expands more that the bottom, elevation error. Get a crap gun and or crap ammo, and well, now you have errors compounded as the consistency is all over the map.
After that the biggest error, in rifle and long range, is air resistance. Be it wind, altitude, or whatever.
Still mud? I may be trying to answer is too short of a form. Let me know.
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I understand how increasing the error from any one source dwarfs the other sources, especially when it comes to the shooter.
IIRC, TS once said something to the effect of "expensive golf clubs won't make you golf like Tiger Woods, neither will an expensive gun make you a good shooter".
Was curious as to some of the gun/ammo aspects purely from the technology standpoint, and what order of priority the experts would put on them.
There is just plenty of stuff in there that "I don't know that I don't know".
Trying to figure out what exists in those "blind" areas of ignorance.
At what point are there diminishing returns on barrel thickness?
How important are quality scope rings?
How important is parallax adjustment on optics?
Which aspect of handloading tends to matter most (precision in overall length, precision in powder charge, bullet choice, etc.) and why?
Should different bullet weights be selected to take advantage of the stability issues mentioned for different ranges?
It's my understanding that hollow points improve interior ballistics due to the rearward shifted center of mass.
-Is this true, and how important is it?
-Do hollow points suffer from less stability with exterior ballistics?
Those are a few of the thoughts wandering through my mind.