how do you tell if it's you vs if you fucked up the crown and or barrel?
>>65490904that'd still be you
It is the wind
>>65490904it's probably just you
>>65490904Learn to shoot? Anyone at all can shoot 1 MOA quite easily so if it's way above that it's the rifle or optics
The importance of crowning is kind of overestimated. A nice crown helps juuust a smidge for precision at range, but as long as the muzzle hole isn't some kind of jagged mess, it's going to be fine, it won't turn a 1MOA rifle to a 9MOA one.
>>65491719It can sometimes, the gas is faster than the bullet so a bad crown can make a puff of gas push the bullet to the side as it exits the barrel
>>65491491I'll do a thing where I'll shoot at 50 yards and 2 of the holes will be touching and the third will be like 2 inches away
>>65490904>shooting is about mastering repetition >crown damage is always in the same spot Just work around it. Its bad shooters blaming a small chip or ding to cover up their terrible fundamentals.
>>65491836I don't think that's how that works
>>65490904Simple, you just have to look down the barrel. It's easier to see where the damage on the crown is if you load a round. And a pro tip is to fire it and watch how the crown changes so you can know it's deviation pattern and shoot around it
>>65491856retard
>>65491843He's not strictly wrong, accuracy in firearms is primarily about consistency. Match ammo seeks to minimize as much of the variance as possible in each component of the cartridge, for instance, making sure the powder charge has really little variance between each loaded round, making sure the projectile is very, well, consistent in shape and weight. The more predictable your gun and ammunition is, the better you can apply precision.So, if the crown has damage but the damage has a consistent effect, it could be worked around. If it reliably makes the rifle pattern just a bit down low, you could either adjust the sights or simply manually account for it.Recrowning a rifle isn't some monumental task though, and if it's a nice rifle it'd be worth doing for just the pride alone. Hell, even if it's a cheap rifle, it's easy enough to recrown a barrel yourself to a basic level that you might as well just do it, makes you feel just a bit better about your gun, and confidence is good for marksmanship.
>>65491998no, I'm saying I don't think the damaged crown effect is a consistent affect because the gas isn't going to expand in a consistent way. If it was a consistent effect you could compensate with your sights and it wouldn't be an issue. I might get one of those crown cleaner kits. I have 3 rifles, one has a permanent break attached that I'm going to cut off as soon as the awb thing ends (it's currently stayed) an 2 rifles with exposed crowns
Frogposters need to be killed.
