Groups are to small
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Well, because hardly anybody ever shoots 80 shot groups at 300 yards, it’s difficult to know. My wild guess is that 3MOA, 80 shot group even if you exclude five or 10 outliers would be pretty damn good.
Same thing with standard deviation: the habit of the entire gun community is to do repeated trials with tiny sample sizes and then hand pick the best ones to place in their mind or online as representative of their group size or standard deviation.
If people recorded mean radius of every single shot out of their gun as well as standard deviation, we would get a better (and BIGGER
) picture of reality.
Having said that a standard deviation of 36 seems pretty high
Also, did you realize you burned up 10% of your 22 Creedmoor barrel with this little test?
Same thing with standard deviation: the habit of the entire gun community is to do repeated trials with tiny sample sizes and then hand pick the best ones to place in their mind or online as representative of their group size or standard deviation.
If people recorded mean radius of every single shot out of their gun as well as standard deviation, we would get a better (and BIGGER
Having said that a standard deviation of 36 seems pretty high
Also, did you realize you burned up 10% of your 22 Creedmoor barrel with this little test?