Well, my last post hits on that a bit but I'm looking for all answers. My own personal opinion has been that matches are bought at the practice bench more than when we buy components or any other place. I realize, or think I do, that yardage and disciplines matter a great deal in the final standings as well as how some people answer my post. Bottom line, I have a lot of friends and customers that shoot long range. I want to put something together that i very competitive to come play with my peeps. Really, not only that as I've built a lot of guns for both short and long range but I'm looking for feedback from people that I'll use to guide me in a lot of things in regard to my build. Some are obvious...I mean, anybody can build something like everyone else has. I'm looking for the finer detiails to a build for specific distances and not looking for the status quo answers. I kinda already know that most people that work hardest, finish best. That's where the details come in. I will put the work in but this is about putting it to work as best I can, too, and I'm simly not someone who does anything simly because that's what everybody else does. By now, that should be obvious about me. Lol!
To answer your question...well, I don't have an answer except to say that to me, tune is where a gun shoots smallest and preferably over a wider rang of conditions and maybe even speeds. Wind is just that...something we have to learn, but with a compromise of wind bucking and pure accuracy, I'm a short range guy. In that game, and I feel it's the game that's most critical to pure accuracy, I still think not pulling the trigger at the wrong time or minimizing mistakes is more important than tune, a little. It just stands to reason, as distance increases, that will become more and more the case...to me. It's a roundabout way to get what I'm looking for but it doesn't change the answer, I don't think, to what matters most...equipment, tune or wind. Practice fixes all but the equipment aspect.
Real bottom line though...does practice outweigh tune. And I suspect the answer is yardage dependent to a large degree. Most of us have really good equipment. I know it's not all 100% equal but I think in short range, given a good tune(not a given) wind is what separates us more than equipment. And as yarage increases, I would logically believe that wind is even more important. I'm trying to give my opinion without influencing people from posting or it being a pee'ing contest. Is practice more or less valuable than tune and at what yardage? It's common for long range guys to shoot fast to catch a condition. Same with sr group shooters, to a degree. Score doesn't give that option very often. It's just hard to navigate a target that fast, to get all record shots in a condition. That brings up questions in regard to equipment(speed, not velocity), wind reading and loading for individual bbl characteristics I've had bbls that shot great both cold and warm but I've seen some that move a bit with heat too.
