Re: DPMS Accuracy?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Meat Hunter</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sterling Shooter</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Meat Hunter</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I have been shooting a box stock 16" RRA 223 for a little while and liked the accuracy but not the down range power. I friend of mine bought a DMPS Sportical 16" stock rifle. I shot his rifle with Hornady Superformance 165 gr ammo and consistantly shot sub moa. He can consistantly shoot sub 3/4 moa with the gun and ammo.
I go shopping for an AR style .308 and come up with what I thought was a better rifle. The one I have in my signature. DMPS LR308B with factory fluted 18" bull barrel. I have only shot sub moa a couple times even with the better trigger and the NF scope. I want better accuracy consistantly.
My question is, would I be better off changing out the barrel to something better than factory or would I be better off getting a different better quality rifle altogether? I plan to mostly punch paper and hunt some but I want tack driving accuracy if at all possible. No longer distances than maybe 500 yds.
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Here's a question for you, what is your aggregate grouping experience with other rifles? BTW, tack driving accuracy is all about you. Unless your rifle is broken or ammunition is defective the bullet will always go in the direction the barrel is pointed. Knowing where the barrel is pointed is about properly pointing the rifle with consistent sight alignment and pulling the trigger without disturbing aim utilizing smooth trigger control. Everything else supports those two concepts. A consistent position is the sum of everything else.
What I'm getting at here is although the rifle and ammunition are important, consider too your relationship to the gun and ground. It's this relationship which is most important to good shooting. You can build a superb rifle and load it with exceptionally massaged ammunition; but, unless you re-build your relationship to the gun and ground between shots to a molecularly identical consistency, groups like that which you describe will be logical. How could it be otherwise, after all that's what happens when recoil becomes divergent as a result of not maintaining consistent control of the firearm during follow-through.
There are five factors to a steady position: elbows, non-firing hand, grip, stock-weld, and butt-to-shoulder. Developing motor memory to honor these will take your shooting to the highest plateaus. Learn something about the effects of temperature, slope, wind, gravity, and drag; and, you'll get dazzling results to whatever distance the bullet can get to nose-on. </div></div>
I went through several rifles and dozens or different ammo choices before I was competitive. I understand the mechanics thing and also know that like most folks I have lots of room for improvement. That said though if any gun could get the job done in the right hands then these companies that make $2000-$6000 rifles would be out of business. </div></div>
If more folks realized that it's all about the shooter and not the stick, then yes, the folks that make the rifles you describe would likely be out of business.