Let's See Your "Best" 100-Yard Groups

[Old No7]

OK, let's see your "best" 100-yard groups -- shot with any firearm.

I'll start with a 40 gr VMax load shot over 10 years ago from my glass-bedded Rem 700 in Triple Deuce using Benchmark powder, with a Timney trigger set at 2.5 pounds. I've matched this several times, but still haven't shot a better 5-shot group just yet -- but I'm still trying.

Holiday cheers to all!

Old No7

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[JimT]

Shot with custom Ruger .41 Magnum by Bowen. 110 yards. 5 shots. Sitting on the ground, leaning back against a fence post and holding the gun with both hands between my upraised knees.

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The Pistol

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[Scott Tschirhart]

Impressive!

[AmBraCol]

Lost the target years ago, pre-cell phone days so no handy pic either. I'd been working up a deer hunting load for my customized P17 Enfield and had my latest concoction of a 165gr Hornady SPBT over a dose of Winchester 760. Took a couple of shots at 100 yards, only saw one hole, another shot and no change, figured the poi was all over the place. Walked out there and found a tidy not quite cloverleaf as the third (or first, or second - don't know for sure) shot barely clipped the edge of another shot. Took note of the correction needed to center things as I wanted them, adjusted the scope, packed up and headed home. Stopped at Gibson's on my way in order to pick up another box of those bullets and another pound of 760.

I really like Jim's target. Doubt I'll ever get close to that with a sixgun.

[samsi]

Best with a levergun was 5 shots in 1 3/8" with a Model 64 Deluxe. Ammo was plain vanilla Remington 170 CoreLokts, shooting off a tool bag on the hood of the truck about 20 years ago.

Best with a revolver was 6 in about 7" with a 10 1/2" SBH. No real preparation, I just plopped down and leaned over with elbows ahead of knees with no back rest. I remember not being overly impressed with it at the time. I was about 35 and had I realized then that I wouldn't be able to shoot like that forever I would have saved targets, or at least taken pictures.

On a related note, I've been reading The Rediscovered Country by Stewart Edward White. White was known for being a phenomenal field shot, likely on the order of Keith where he took it for granted and didn't grasp that everyone wasn't like him. It's been an enjoyable read.

[JimT]

I really like Jim's target. Doubt I'll ever get close to that with a sixgun.

I like it also. And I doubt I will ever get close to that again with a sixgun.

[Shasta]

I had a four-drawer metal filing cabinet loaded with hundreds of targets I had shot while testing loads. Most were pretty dismal but I kept them to remind me of what did not work (which is as important as what DID work). Unfortunately I lost all that information when my place burned in the 2018 Carr Fire here in Shasta County. I did have a very few of the targets downloaded on my computer which I managed to save from the fire. The best target I could find on the computer was shot with my Browning BPCR in .40-65, shot off sandbags on a bench:



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[bgmkithaca]

I reworked a Marlin 336 with a new barrel chambered for a wildcat- .375 Hoosier. Once it got tuned it turned out consistent 5 shot groups at 100 yards of 5/8" group after group. I have not even came close to that with any other lever action and I have had several. My son has it today and says about the same thing.

[Streetstar]

I havent officially stepped it off - but this one is from my "way way out there" target line for a pistol --- and its enough that i always get a basic rifle zero out there too

--- further than 80 but not further than 110 -- whatever the case- thats 3.5" with a stock Blackhawk .45 -- barrel on a little tripod rest and my trigger hand resting as firmly as i could on a small sandbag (first 3 make a nice little triangle --- but honestly i dont know where in the order the flyer came from )

Was enough for me to say -- "good enough - lets take it huntin'

[.45colt]

I'm not a very Good shot,the best I ever managed was My Marlin MX .338 Express off of a rickety table. https://levergunscommunity.org/viewtopi ... 38#p429598

[JBowen]

This .4 3 shot group with my M77 Mk II I 7 mag.
After 3 years of trying many loads and tweaks on the rifle I came up with this load with 150 grain Nosler Ballistic Tips
And IMR4350 powder.

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[Tycer]

Going through all the available 22 back in 2012 for the new 10/22 takedown. Each diamond is a five shot group with different ammo.
That little bugger will do that bottom left all day with Aguila Gold Eagle Match Rifle. Almost that good with crunchy old Remington Thunderbolt

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[Bill in Oregon]

I wish I could find the actual "bughole" I shot with a mentor's light varmint rig: A Kelbly Stolle Panda action, Pac-Nor barrel, Jewel trigger, McMillan target stock and big Nightforce glass on top. My late friend Sandy Young had it chambered in 6mm BR. This rig was so accurate it could even make a klutz like me look like I knew what I was doing. Sandy was a shot-up and disabled Vietnam veteran who grew up in Southern Arizona and somehow ended up in the Southern Oregon. Prostate cancer finally came for him, but he had coached a lot of guys in accurate shooting by the time he passed, God rest his soul. It was a wonder to watch him find and shoot a condition on our 600-yard range, which was perpendicular to the prevailing winds and subject to the mirage and boil of our 100-degree summer days.
He would sit there waiting and watching the wind flags and checking the mirage though his scope and then would quickly run four or five shots, if the condition was stable.
That range was left over from Camp White, which Congress authorized five days after Pearl Harbor to be built in the "Agate Desert" of the Rogue Valley and completed in late 1942 to train the 96th Infantry. It was an adventure pulling targets at 600, as the pits were somehow attractive to the occasional rattlesnake.
Here's one of my best recent targets with a bog-standard Ruger American in 6.5 Grendel, the previous one to the one I recently sold. Shot this at our club in Sweetwater, Texas.

[wvfarrier]

Just a few from when I was working on 308 loads.

[Paladin]

Fired testing a SIG 716 in .308 this year with 150 NAS Steel case ammo.
3/4 of an inch with me pulling one.

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This is where I pulled one with my M-21 ( I guess at almost 70), I don't shoot as well as I used to.

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