These were torque tests of my barreled action in a chassis. I had initially assembled the rifle at 45 in/lbs, sighted in and fired a match the following day, results were, eh, less than expected. I read up on tuner testing methods and decided to apply some of that methodology to torque/tuning with the action screws. This produced repeatable results and when I ran the ammo out a couple of years later, and switched to a different brand, I figured everything would be different, but it wasn’t. Don’t have the targets, but after the 50y tests I moved to 100 and was equally impressed with the results, so I used the rifle with that same setting the following year with equal results.
this target was fired at a measured 300y with 4 friends present, one of whom fired both my rifle and his own (we simply adjusted our holds so the impacts wouldn’t overlap:
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The orange circled groups were me tweaking my zero, the pink me holding a bit low for group size. After squawking how happy I was, a friend came over and fired the blue group with my gun, then switched to his Vudoo for the green group.
Sometime after this I decided to try a “forward blow compensator” to see if there was any effect, groups at 50yds went to 3.5” vertical dispersion-repeatable. I tested a few other comps/flash hiders, all caused worse groups than just the plain thread cover.
