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Link Posted: 6/29/2023 4:20:58 PM EDT
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With the 1-7" twist, don't expect stellar groups with any thing less than 62 grain bullets.
Jon
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It's been proven over and over and over and over again that light-weight bullets can shoot superbly from fast twist barrels. The 10-shot group pictured below was fired from a Noveske barreled AR-15 with a 1:7" twist using 55 grain bullets.  The group has an extreme spread of 0.74"




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Link Posted: 7/5/2023 7:57:22 AM EDT
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You mentioned your barrel is a 1:7 twist. What weight bullets are you trying to get it to group with? If you're shooting 55 gr, they need a slower twist. The 1:7 is for heavier bullets in the 68gr and up range.
I have a 20" 1:7 twist barrel and the best it will group with 55's is about 3moa at 100 yds. The heavier bullets will give me 1-1.5 moa groups at 100 yds.
Keep us posted on your progress.
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Twist has very little to do with group size vs bullet weight. Almost zero negative impact. This is a gun myth. Higher twist rate allows for larger variation in bullet accuracy due to jacket thickness variation or lack of perfect weight balance due to increased rotational force. The solution? Use bullets with near perfect balance concentricity and keep jacket thickness variation as small as possible... AKA match bullets.
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