DLT
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So do i. I just need to find out where im messing up at. The squeeze bag I bought I thought would be the great end all to my trouble but it’s only gotten worse as far as using it for accuracy on a bench. It should work great for me just banging steel at various distances just far from ideal for a bench unless I can learn to drive itThis is a general observation and it's based on what I have seen as a range officer when asked about groups when people have issues and on some evaluation of my own issues from some competitive shooters. You have one group shot in a setup which held pretty well vertically with some horizontal spread. You came off the rifle, made a scope adjustment and then set up for the second group. On this group you held tight horizontal and scattered vertically. This is extremely obvious.
So what changed? Load? It is highly unlikely that the load caused this. Five random shots for each group would spread more randomly. Size of the group maybe load but not the pattern. You show two very distinct patters in two separate groups.
Equipment? I assume you didn't change bags, etc so the change again is unlikely to be the equipment itself. Scope? Could be but not likely.
Shooter? Here is the thing that changed most between the two groups. Maybe you only looked over the rifle and made the scope adjustment or maybe you left the rifle entirely but you did release the rifle. To shoot the right target you had to adjust the POA to that target which involved the movement of rifle, but what about the bags? Did you realign them. Did you repeat the rifles position on the bag? Did you hang the front swivel on the bag. OR did you change your hold on the rifle trying to reduce the horizontal spread from the first group?
Bottom line is none of us can diagnose the problem here just by looking at those groups. We can offer opinions based on what we have seen and experienced. Ultimately you will have to determine the cause of the scatter. In this case I tend to think it is shooter induced.