I've been trying to improve my shooting in anticipation of my elk hunting trip to Utah in September. I'm shooting a Browning A-Bolt that has a muzzlebrake (called a BOSS). I wasn't sure that I had it tuned optimally so I set up to do it again. My 100 yard shooting bench is in disrepair so I set up to shoot prone from 72 yards (it was a convenient spot on the edge of the pond).
I marked paper with crosshairs for each setting on the BOSS and I shot a group of three off of bags. My best groups were around 3 and 6 so I experimented with a couple more groups at 3.5 and 6.5. Finally, I concluded 6.5 was my best setting. I had been shooting at 4 previously.
At the 6.5 setting from 72 yards off of bags, I shot about a 1" group. I don't think that's great but it is respectable.
Then I moved back to 100 yards and shot a group of 6 off of sticks. 5 of them were pretty good but one was a flier.
Incidentally, there was a left to right wind during this whole process - I think that's why all the groups were to the right of center.
Then I moved back to 190 yards and shot another group off of sticks. It was about a 6" group - not so great. More work needed.
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