I just watched the first part, but that was enough. In that he failed to mention what the military standards are for accuracy for combat weapons, or the average number of rounds fired to kill or wound one enemy soldier. I agree that he seems to be a nice old guy, but on this subject he is full of it. IMO you can spend too much time watching Youtube and not enough doing your own testing. Do you own a bore scope? Are you aware that they have become very inexpensive? Copper fouling is directly related to rifle accuracy, but if you set your accuracy standards low enough, it becomes a lot less of an issue. The real question becomes what are you trying to accomplish. If you are trying to hit a buck at close range then perhaps he is right, but if you are trying to hit small targets, at longer distances, or shot small groups, then he is not.
Yeah that's always a red flag for me .when someone starts talking about accuracy and they bring up the military
Honestly the accuracy standards we have in the military ,in reality, arnt that impressive imo. I'll hva to find some of my old zero targets but I'd be getting told how well of a shot I was and I'd be looking at my 30m zero target like " I mean if you say so". That's not me trying to brag just saying what we considered acceptable accuracy isn't something I'd personally use a as some kinda guide you know. And I have to do hitting a full sized EPSIC out to 300m eleven with irons isn't hard with a half decent rifle. Definitely don't need a spotless clean bore all the time. But like I said it's a big target.
I was able to chat with one of the snipers at chow one time. Ends up most snipers guard side are big into precision shooting civilian side. Was asking about accuracy requirements and all and was very very surprised when he shrugged and said "MOA".
Think Phillip velyho ( think that's how you say his last name ) spoke about this , comparing a military sniper rifle and civilian precision rifle and how their two different animals.
Then the way we treaded our rifles ! I mean yeah we cleaned them but I would HATE to run a bore scope though one of the M4 or M16 barrels I had
so yeah using "military standards" as a accuracy standaed is beyond a red flag for me.
A bore scope is on my wish list since I like buying used beater guns and I do bullet casting, I see it as a very good tool ,just what most call inexpensive and what I call inexpensive are two different things
it's coming though
As far as YouTube, I quite enjoy it but, I'm not really always looking for definitives answers like it seems many do. More less I just like seeing what everyone does and why. I like hearing different ideas and thoughts about why this or that works or similar. Sometimes I'll just listen to something just for back ground noise . I mean honestly I'll happily listen to anyone from billy Joe talking about the .22lr he found in a barn to guys likes Erik Cortina talking about optimal barrel timing . Very rarely do I just believe everything I'm told though ( lotta folks can't stand me because of this
). Especially when it comes to what I'm doing. And when someone starts saying how they know something because their an "expert " or something or their calling themselves something like " the real gunsmith" I'm immediately questioning them.
In this case I quite enjoy watching and listening to this guy . He comes off as the old school be accurate but don't get crazy with it type . Which I feel is quite beneficial to most average guys just shooting deer at 60yd . But after listening to multiple interviews with high grade barrel manufacturers who say copper fouling isn't good and after seeing all the guys winning competitions where they are shooting groups in the 0's who say they do everything they can to eliminate any and all fouling ..... Well what he's saying just doesn't seem right.
One of my favorite quotes goes along the lines of
" Question everything even the existence of God for surely he most appreciate this more then blind followers"
Anyhow I'm babbling now at this point.
