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While I've had no shortage of guns that shot excellent groups, it seems that lately a few of my guns weren't shooting up to my standards and I seemed to be chasing zero's all the time. This came to a head the other day when I had a Hodge barreled gun that was throwing 3-4" groups uncharacteristically. I wasn't sure if it was how I was getting on the gun; bad day or what.
I decided today after work, I would take out my stubby tripod setup that is pretty rock solid and double check my groups again on a new day. I tried shooting 2x different ways with the setup and I was throwing rounds up, down, and all around that I wasn't calling. Remembering that some of my best groups from other guns came from 20 round mags off my pack because I could get lower so I tried that...still no good. However, I've had some bad 20-round mags mar up my bullets too so I decided to try a gen 3 Pmag just for grins. Low and behold...the group was about 1/2 the size and right about where it should be (despite a pretty hot barrel, hot temper, and sliding fundamentals). I had some less-than-perfect trigger presses but all my shots were right where I called them. My center dot never left the "X" ring and neither did my impacts.
Happy to have figured that out, I shot the gun off my pack at my 2/3rd IPSC steel in the fence line. In speaking with Jim, he said his barrel magic in 14.5" shows numbers close to 16" guns. I can say that this 14.5" Hodge barrel chrono's the exact same as a 16.5" HK barrel and spits out 77gr TMK's at about 2600fps.
807y with a 14.5" chrome-line barrel and factory Black Hills ammo...
9.5 Mils of elevation with wind holds varying between 1.7 and 2.1 Mils, I went 14/25 on the steel.
I decided today after work, I would take out my stubby tripod setup that is pretty rock solid and double check my groups again on a new day. I tried shooting 2x different ways with the setup and I was throwing rounds up, down, and all around that I wasn't calling. Remembering that some of my best groups from other guns came from 20 round mags off my pack because I could get lower so I tried that...still no good. However, I've had some bad 20-round mags mar up my bullets too so I decided to try a gen 3 Pmag just for grins. Low and behold...the group was about 1/2 the size and right about where it should be (despite a pretty hot barrel, hot temper, and sliding fundamentals). I had some less-than-perfect trigger presses but all my shots were right where I called them. My center dot never left the "X" ring and neither did my impacts.
Happy to have figured that out, I shot the gun off my pack at my 2/3rd IPSC steel in the fence line. In speaking with Jim, he said his barrel magic in 14.5" shows numbers close to 16" guns. I can say that this 14.5" Hodge barrel chrono's the exact same as a 16.5" HK barrel and spits out 77gr TMK's at about 2600fps.
807y with a 14.5" chrome-line barrel and factory Black Hills ammo...
9.5 Mils of elevation with wind holds varying between 1.7 and 2.1 Mils, I went 14/25 on the steel.