Analyze My Groups

[Moose83]

How much cheek pressure do you have on your stock? I've noticed my face doesn't work well with the krg echo and I end up putting a lot of lateral pressure into the stock causing horizontal stringing.

 

[huntnful]

@huntnful,
I’ll fully admit the shooter is biggest suspected problem in this equation.

Haha I understand what you mean. If you’re constantly changing setups and positions it’s tough to really pinpoint where the changes are occurring. That’s why I test everything from exactly the same position, in the same spot. Try to eliminate myself trying while seeing how the gun wants to actually shoot.

 

[Schmo]

Haha I understand what you mean. If you’re constantly changing setups and positions it’s tough to really pinpoint where the changes are occurring. That’s why I test everything from exactly the same position, in the same spot. Try to eliminate myself trying while seeing how the gun wants to actually shoot.

Very valid point. I can shoot another group and see how it compares to that one. Fortunately, it’s far better than my initial groups, and shoots well enough to go kill stuff!

It’s a Preferred shouldered prefit, so it’s not a gunsmith barrel. Might have your smith spin my next one up.

 

[huntnful]

Very valid point. I can shoot another group and see how it compares to that one. Fortunately, it’s far better than my initial groups, and shoots well enough to go kill stuff!

It’s a Preferred shouldered prefit, so it’s not a gunsmith barrel. Might have your smith spin my next one up

Oh yeah, it’ll definitely kill!

He be worth reaching out to. But he might not do it. He’s particular about what components he’ll work on or with.

 

[Schmo]

He be worth reaching out to. But he might not do it. He’s particular about what components he’ll work on or with.

Oh I’d go with whatever blank I needed to use. What brand have you had the best luck with across all your builds?

 

[huntnful]

Oh I’d go with whatever blank I needed to use. What brand have you had the best luck with across all your builds?

I’ve had good luck with Brux, Kreiger, Muller, Benchmark and Bartlein. I’ve never really had a bad steel steel barrel. And only one carbon barrel that I would consider bad.

I just think there’s much more that goes into having a precise rifle than just the barrel. And I let the tweaker OCD gunsmiths deal with that shit lol.

 

[Finaddictions]

Honestly, to me it mostly looks like torque on the gun stock. If you apply different pressure each time with your cheek, shoulder or grip hand at the wrist, that’s exactly what you’ll see. This is vastly exacerbated when shooting lightweight rifles. Removing pressure from each of those spots allows the rifle to recoil the same each time and The groups shrink dramatically.

 

[Packmansion]

I was having something similar occur. I sanded down the barrel channel up to the action retorqued everything and groups got a lot better I was in the 1.5 moa zone for 10 shots and I brought it back down to 1.1 moa zone. Maybe it was the torque maybe barrel brake in maybe the channel. Not sure why tikka insists on barely floating the barrel. Its like if they took off .2 inches we'd be good. Its just industry fudding around.

 

[Schmo]

Shot another group last night. Only 8 shots, as needed to conserve ammo for the hunting I still have to do next week.