Groupings?

Sorry to rain on your fire so early on in the proceedings matey, but I've never shot a groupings test, and never will, because it means absolute squat when your face down in the dirt taking on moving targets. What I believe is important is weapon familiarity. I haven't changed the set up of my rifle for nearly 3 years now, and that was only when I changed the hop bucking, and a month ago to lower the power to 350fps, but I know that I can hit a man sized target out to 250 yards using my 500fps set up, that is all that counts. As I've covered in other topics, after 50 yards there are so many other variables at work on the BB that past that point everything else is knowing and understanding how YOUR rifle fires, yes to a degree this can be learnt firing at targets in your back garden from a reasonably supported position, but then place you and said target in an unknown environment, with unpredictable atmospherics, at roughly the same distance and move said target approximately 3/5 feet for every shot you take and you begin to see what I'm getting at

In short there is no substitute for getting your arse in the grass if you want to learn how to shoot your rifle accurately

Just my 2p, if anyone wants to post their groupings, please carry on

Yards bud, I'm a builder by trade so am aware of the difference

I've done it twice now at similar ranges and both were confirmed by the self designated spotter with me at the time, the shot was more aimed like a mortar, with the target being only just visible in the scope with the amount of hold over required to get out to such ranges.

The rifles used were my old CA M24, 550fps, fixed hop, TM bucking, 6.08mm x 509mm barrel, plus my usual tinkerings to improve seal and consistency, .43g Digi straights
Place was a site called 'The Rock' which is held in a Hooooooge quarry in the south of england, and the terrain resembles something from A'stan mountains.

The second was with my current VSR, 504fps, latex/durex/laylax internals, nineball hop bucking, custom modded Systema 6.04mm x 445mm barrel, again with my usual tinkerings, .43g Digi straights
Place was at 1 of our club training days, open woodland and fields, target shooting practice sniper challenge. 2 of us started shooting at a lucky, and I feel privileged, 'Volunteer' standing out to 175 yards we would then get 5 shots to hit him move back 10 yards and repeat. Our other team sniper did use, he has now retired from playing, a Sun projects M40A1 firing at I believe 525fps and again .43g Digi straights.

There you go matey, 3 back to back rifle comparisons for you all tested to a 250ish yard range

EDIT for speelung n greymar

It does have to be said the conditions were favorable on both days, on the first occasion the guy with me is also within the building trade so is also oh-fay with not getting his feet and yards mixed up but the conversation did revolve around 'Look at 'im over there, hes spotting for those in the valley, do you reckon you can hit 'im from here?', 'Don't know, I'll give it a go.' 8 or 9 shots later 'Fuck me, you hit 'im!', 'Really?', 'Yep, buggers got his hand in the air and is walking!', We then sat there and discussed how far we both estimated it was, and taking into account that we where surrounded by stone blocks of almost identical size, that were also between us and him, we came up with about 250 yards. I had to ask my spotter to confirm the shot and call where the BB was landing for me to make adjustments, as the target was literally only just in the scope for me, so there was no real way for me to track the shot, and non of our team where any where near in range to of shot him I also commend the guy for actually taking the hit, there aint many grunts out there that would of at that distance : but he must of known he was being targeted as I must of got atleast a couple close
The second occasion was measured at 230 yards, the target taking extended strides, equating to approx. 3 feet per stride on the average adult. We both managed to hit him at that range and there was about 20 witnesses, I'm fairly sure there was money changing hands too We had absolutely no wind that day, so it was ideal and the field did dip down slightly by about 3 feet, which could well of aided abit