accuracy question

[colin lad]

ok so this just a question purely out of curiosity,

as like most of us who own guns that have a favorite round that it like's how about the army with say their SA80 etc do they have some guns that love the rounds and some that don't??

so if their on the shooting range you could have a lad who is not doing as good as the lad next to him when he could well be a better shot but has a gun that hate's the rounds its being fed???

just a thought,

 

colin

[GingerCat]

Can't remember measuring the group with the sa80, on the fig 11 was good enough.

The wo1 would put a fiver in the hat and out shoot us standing when we were prone but a bit of research into his history soon pointed out why.

Sometimes he lost with the pistols.

Snipers used green tip ammo that is the first out of the mould so far more accurate

When I was in the ammo was cheap and from India but apparently in war time they get the good stuff out.

[kent]

Standards are frankly not that high in normal infantry use as you could honestly blame the gun or its like for the ammo or otherwise. Main use is sustained withering rate of fire into an area not picking off smaller target areas at longer range which is the job of the dedicated marksman or sniper

[colin lad]

Standards are frankly not that high in normal infantry use as you could honestly blame the gun or its like for the ammo or otherwise. Main use is sustained withering rate of fire into an area not picking off smaller target areas at longer range which is the job of the dedicated marksman or sniper

makes sense

 

 

colin

[ChrisAsh]

When I was in the navy, we did not worry about grouping it was the aim to get the first shot to do the kill over iron sights

 

Please dont ask my views on bench shooting,

[welshwarrior]

With the amount of play in most sa80s the rifle not liking the round is not that important.

 

Some are better than others and more accurate but the maximum group size to pass shoots is quite large. Only the infantry fire at 400m and they get 12 rounds to hit 4 man size targets it's not hard.

 

Sniping is a different matter.