I think we can safely rule out the shooter as the source of inconsistency.
I'm sorry, but that's not bloody likely.
That's why I asked Rayne to retest it. We ALL have bad days, and we ALL sometimes have bad groups with a good ammo. I never take one day's test of a rimfire ammo as gospel, no matter how good I think I was holding that day. If I'm REALLY on it mentally, and still shooting like crap, I stop and go mow the yard or whatever. No sense wasting ammo and training the wrong things, even if I can't quite put my finger on what is wrong that day.
Okay...mayyybe if it shoots 2-3" groups at 100 where I just held for 3/4" the ammo before...
But once you have a couple you're really interested in, buying a brick of both, and running that amount through the gun at 50/100/200 will tell you about all you need know for that chamber with that ammo until the chamber erodes enough to bring that round off the lands.
-Nate
I just popped in to say hi to Rayne...
Hi Rayne...
If it was shooter inconsistency, especially in the second test since I was shooting from a sling, wouldn't you expect all the groups to have opened up and not just one or two groups?
...I got a phone call that my daughter had been in an accident three hours from where I was.