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Q:I've been looking for some tips to improve my long-range shooting in case I get the chance at a hunt out West. Does anyone have any references on long-range shooting techniques/tips? If so, e-mail me at 4shores@charter.net

from Matt on 06.30.09
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Q:I’m puzzled, just how is a bullet group measured. Is it center to center or inside edge to inside edge or possibly outside edge to outside edge? In fact, the last one was the one I thought was used, because people have made comments like you could cover the group with a dime, implying a measurement of outside edge to outside edge. In the past I never gave it a lot of thought. What brings me this great puzzlement is an article I read on the eye-popping .178 inch group made by a .30 caliber rifle What puzzled me was how do you get a group almost half the diameter of the .30 caliber bullet used. The way I see it, if the bullet is a .30 caliber, and each one of a group went straight through the same whole each time wouldn’t it be a .30 inch group? Wouldn’t you have to have bullets at least as small as the .178 inch group measurement to have a group that size? Also how do you measure a ragged edge hole in paper made by a spinning bullet down to a thousandth of an inch. I mean that’s almost as thin as the whiskers on the chin of a gnat. Ragged edged holes? Maybe a hundredth of an inch, maybe, but a thousandth? Do you go with the inside edge of the ragged edge or the outside edge of the ragged edge? It seems to me the raggedness of it is more then a thousandth of an inch. Is there a chance some one on your staff could answer these questions? Alan Duhon Newport News, Va

from aduhon on 03.30.09
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Q:The varmint rifles that I currently use are chambered in .222 Remington, .22/250 Remington and .243 Winchester. However, I'm considering obtaining a rifle in 6mm Remington. I would like to try it with the heavy 105-grain A-MAX, or a similar bullet, for long-range shots at woodchucks (roughly 500 yards). What do you think of this cartridge/bullet combo? Also, I've heard that the 6mm isn't as accurate as the .243. Is this true? —K.K., Candor, NY

from outdoorlife-editor on 01.02.09
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