Quoted: I think my upper is far better than me. I think it is capable of sustained 0.5" groups at 50yds with the right ammo. I'm finding rimfires to be quite tempermental in the accuracy department.
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Ah, you're catching on! There was a thread on this very topic on RFC lately, ie, how many of you have rifles (of any sort) that will shoot half-inch groups "all day long?" Turns out that damn few do. It takes a good rifle, expensive ammo, and a no-wind day to pull it off, and even then it's no guarantee.
I've found that just about any halfway decent .22 rifle can be made to shoot into an inch at 50--maybe an inch and a quarter--if you take the time to find the ammo it likes. A gun that will put every group into 3/4" @ 50 is a bit harder to find, but they're around too. The half-inch guns are rarer still, though many guns will shoot a half-inch group just often enough to keep you trying it.
You're doing quite well with your .22 AR to stay inside an inch, with the majority of shots in a half-inch. My DPMS will hold an inch, but the best genuine 5-shot 50 yard group I've fired yet ran .665, which I'm quite happy with. It is definitely accurate enough to practice my offhand or any other position with, and has been extremely reliable. I recently bench-test 17 different scoped .22 rifles and the DPMS was the most accurate autoloader. It got outshot by a couple bolt actions (one of them an Anschutz, one an old Winchester 69A), but it also outshot a couple other bolt guns!
Would love to put your gun and mine on the bench together someday, but if you're in NV you're a bit out of my neighborhood.
But no big deal, we both seem to be happy with our respective guns, and isn't that really what it's all about anyway?