Perhaps this is why we so often struggle to print small groups at close range as we point our rifles off here or there at what we think is the center of our target when it is actually a slight bit somewhere else.
WTF does this mean?
Who often struggles to print small groups at 100y, other than people with poor fundamentals or crap gear?
Perhaps our 5/8 MOA rifle at 100 yards is really a 3/8 MOA rifle with 1/4 MOA light refraction problem.
Do understand that if you're shooting the same day and time across the same type of terrain, that optical displacement is more significant with distance, right?
Some people do shoot more consistently when they can not see the target as well, and it is a mental thing, a training issue.
Yes, I have shoot several rounds where the impacts are almost touching at ELR distances, but it is an anomaly, maybe it was a .5moa miss, and the wind blew it closer, as one-offs, but the depth people go to make themselves feel better, is nuts.
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