What’s a good f-class group at 300m?

[DShortt]

I started to train heavily before next season 300m matches. Week after week my 10-shot groups are circling around 0.4 moa at 300m. I select lapua brass by weight, select bullets by weight, select primers although in case of br4 it does not make much sense.
I do no turn necks.
Squeeizing these groups down to 0.3 moa would be nice.

An interesting question. Perhaps it is relevant to look at the biggest winning groups from the season and work back?

 

[LRCampos]

In my part of the world, our X ring on F-Class target are 39mm (1,54 inches).

To shoot all 10 shots in the X during a match, the rifle needs to group 0,35 inches at 100 meters (109 yards) consistently... at minimum.

Our matches are 30 shots total (3 series of 10 shots) and the FTR top shooters here are gettting around 300-25X per match.

Aside que pure precision of the gun/ammo system, the main point is read the wind well to put all shots accurately at the X ring.

Shooting F-Class at this short distance put too much weight on the precision of the equipment.

 

[jackieschmidt]

Aside que pure precision of the gun/ammo system, the main point is read the wind well to put all shots accurately at the X ring.

One thing that the TackDriver brings out is a huge dose of reality.

I would suspect that there are quite a few shooters who have thousands of dollars invested in the best of everything would tell you that “my rifle shoots 1/4 inch groups all day long”, only sit there staring through their scope wondering why those bullets are 1 3/4 inches apart.

 

[Will Henry]

One thing that the TackDriver brings out is a huge dose of reality.

I would suspect that there are quite a few shooters who have thousands of dollars invested in the best of everything would tell you that “my rifle shoots 1/4 inch groups all day long”, only sit there staring through their scope wondering why those bullets are 1 3/4 inches apart.

Another thing is, you have to be absolutely merciless when evaluating yourself and your rifle. You cannot give the rifle the benefit of a doubt. I shot a sub-1/2 inch group in practice and was pretty confident. That was the last time I saw that kind of performance and am still at a loss to explain why (I wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, with visions of errant shots still there). Is it me? Am I really that much worse than I was when I was younger? These are questions which have to be answered before next year! I think, the truth is, I gave the rifle the benefit of the doubt, because I wanted to shoot it. I saw the good groups and made excuses for the errant shots.
A friend of mine, fifty years ago, told me, "If you load a decent bullet over a proven load of powder, it should shoot reasonably well. If not there is something wrong with the effing rifle. If it shoots reasonably well, then you can start sweating the small stuff. If not, figure out what's wrong first." WH