Test range waist of money ?

[1911nut]

A point to remember here: precision and accuracy, while related, are not the same thing.

Accuracy: a gun is accurate when it places a bullet at the exact spot you want to hit.

Precision: a gun is precise when it repeatedly places a bullet in the same spot.

Accuracy applies more to individual shots. Precision refers to repeatability.

For example: in a no wind situation, if I am shooting for score and hold the crosshairs on the center of the bull and shoot, but the bullet lands 5 inches to the right of center, then I wasn’t very accurate. If I then shoot 10 more shots while still holding the crosshairs on the center of the bull and all 10 shots go through that same hole 5 inches to the right then how do we interpret that? We would still have to say that our accuracy was not very good because we wanted to hit the center of the bull to get the highest score. However, the gun was very precise because it did the same exact thing over and over again. So that string of shots was precise, but inaccurate. Knowing that a gun is precise allows you to adjust point of aim, scope, sights, etc to give you a gun that is both precise and accurate which is the ideal. If your weapon isn’t precise, then your accuracy has to suffer.

My point is that testing centers can allow us maximize the precision of our gun/ammo combo. So, yes, you can say that tighter groups can favorably impact accuracy. Tighter groups are about precision, and precision is the foundation of accuracy.

“precision is the foundation of accuracy “.