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Posted: 8/17/2006 11:32:54 AM EDT
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As I am rather new at this target practice, I am wondering how many rounds of 'cheap' practice ammo I should shoot for every round to target/match round I shoot. For example: I have been shooting 20 shot groups with Black Hills Blue Box 55 FMJ and averaging 2.5" 20 shot groups with 0.87" mean radii. When I shoot some of the more match orrented 68, 69, 75 and 77 grain rounds I get 1.8" groups with 0.74-odd mean radii. Neither of which should impress anyone here, leading me to belive that A) I need more practice, B) for the most part, I will be able to see a decrease in group size just as easily with lesser expensive ammos as with the more match orrented ammos. So, and anyone care to volenteer a ratio of the number of groups to shoot with practice/plinking ammo to the number of groups I should then verify forward progress (or not) with higher quality ammo? |
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All I shoot is quality ammo for groups.... shooting average stuff is annoying. But then - I reload my quality stuff. 20 shot 1.8" groups aint bad at all. I bet you have some really nice 5 shot groups on average. Plus - it all depends on what your rifle is capable of. |
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You can never practice too much. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said: "That which we persist in doing [i.e. practicing] becomes easier to do. Not that the nature of the thing has changed, but that our ability to do it has increased." If you're practicing for perfection or fine-tuning the basics you've already mastered, then Match Grade ammo is necessary (as Falarak elluded to). For establishing the basics, most any round will do until you have a good handle on BRM (Basic Rifle Marksmanship). |
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