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    Guidance on choosing a new barrel or new rifle

    That’s a sweet looking rifle.
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    Guidance on choosing a new barrel or new rifle

    It's currently in a fully-bedded Accustock, and yes I've shot other rifles better.
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    Guidance on choosing a new barrel or new rifle

    Yes. I'm not looking for ten shots through the same hole; I'm just getting tired of 2 MOA groups. For most of my hunting, it doesn't matter, but I'd like to eventually stretch out to the 500-ish yard territory.
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    Guidance on choosing a new barrel or new rifle

    A custom rifle with a proof research barrel and an MDT Hnt26 folding stock chassis? You'd be hard-pressed to buy the barrel and chassis alone for $2.5k, so with factory blueprinted action and ready to shoot, $3k is about right. More importantly, this was simply mentioned as a price reference...
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    Guidance on choosing a new barrel or new rifle

    Hey folks! I've never been quite satisfied with the accuracy of my Savage 16 LWH with the factory 20" 1:9.5 7mm-08 barrel, and have been looking at new barrel options. As much as I'd love to drop $1000+ on a premium tube, it's hard to stomach that in light of all the great guns that can be...
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    WTS - ELD-X and E-Tip 7mm bullets, 270 Win loaded ammo

    Hey folks! Doing some spring cleaning, and looking to get rid of some components I no longer need. Hornady ELD-X 7mm 162gr bullets, full 100ct box - $35 TYD Nosler E-tip 7mm 150gr bullets 49ct total - 19 current model with the cannelure, 29 older model without the cannelure - $35 TYD Nosler...
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    How long did it take for your first elk?

    I was able to tag out my first two years hunting. The first was absolute blind luck. The second was just regular luck. Then 4 years of nothing 😅. DIY public land elk hunting is very difficult, especially in spike units.
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    Magnetospeed

    Resurrecting an old thread just to say that I finally got around to carefully measuring the POI shift of my magnetospeed sporter on my Savage 16 LWH in 7mm-08 (a very thin 20" barrel). I had hoped to measure the effect on accuracy, but I wasted so much ammo shooting well off my targets I gave...
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    Statistics for differentiating between groups?

    This is the kind of black magic that can only be done by true experts with a crap ton of experience, and it's just downright cool.
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    Statistics for differentiating between groups?

    Most stats books don't directly address this kind of thing. To be fair, the analysis gets quite complex if you don't assume that the underlying distribution is circular Normal, and to my knowledge there simply are no reliable methods available to analyze small samples if you also give up the...
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    Statistics for differentiating between groups?

    A few notes on the Grubbs Test: we need remarkably few assumptions for the test to be valid -- only that the horizontal dispersion of shots within a given group follows a normal distribution and, independently, the vertical dispersion is also normal. They don't have to be the same (i.e., the...
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    Statistics for differentiating between groups?

    Closing the loop on this: I was able to get my hands on a copy of Frank Grubbs's 1964 Statistical Measures of Accuracy for Riflemen and Missile Engineers, which is extensively referenced in shooting statistics works but out of print and quite difficult to find. Thankfully the Interlibrary Loan...
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    EXO K2 or something new?

    Fit is paramount (and unfortunately very specific to each person's individual anatomy) Thankfully, as you seem to have discovered already, hunting packs hold their value quite well especially before getting covered in blood. So there's not too much risk in buying, trying, and selling if you...
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    Accuracy testing my new stock

    I don't mean to say I'd mix the ammo - just that I might repeat the test with a different kind of ammo to see if the results are any different. I also have an ulterior motive for 20-shot groups, since I've also been researching how to measure the statistical significance of the difference...
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    Accuracy testing my new stock

    Hey folks! Within the next few weeks (+/- depending on work stuffs) I'll be doing a side-by-side test to see if replacing my factory non-accustock with an accufit accustock makes my Savage 16 LWH more accurate. It's going to be fairly simple (20 rounds with the old stock v 20 rounds with the...
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    Tics not Tik Toc

    +1 for permethrin, in case anyone still wasn't convinced :). One caveat: once it's dry, permethrin is harmless to pets, but the liquid form is highly toxic to cats, so if you have them just make sure they don't have access to your gear while it's drying. Conversely, you can spray it directly...
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    Statistics for differentiating between groups?

    It matters because the mean radius has a well-established interpretation in the shooting world, as it defines the Circular Error Probable and the military and many other research bodies have established ways of inferring your likelihood of hitting your target based on previous measurements of...
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    Statistics for differentiating between groups?

    How do you figure this?
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    Statistics for differentiating between groups?

    Are you saying that, given a big enough n, the average size of n 2-shot groups gives you the same number as the mean radius of a single group of size 2n??
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    Statistics for differentiating between groups?

    A big part of what I'm trying to say is that these two methods (calculating average radius and calculating the average distance between two-shot groups) absolutely do not accomplish the same thing, unless by "same thing" you mean that both are measures of precision. Sure, they're both that, but...

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