Load Development - What Range?

[The Crisco Kid]

If a gun won’t group at 25yds, it’s better used to beat fence posts in with it or get rid of it. If I can’t shoot well enough to group at 25yds it’s time to quit shooting.

Or go to a smooth bore and shot!

 

[Ninering62]

Or go to a smooth bore and shot!

That would never be my choice

 

[smo]

13 yards

 

[hanshi]

I start them all at 25 or 30 yards; .32, .36 and pistols stay there. All others I get on paper at 25 yds then go to .50. I do shoot some at 100 yds because I once killed deer at around that or farther back when I hunted and could see. Our range has an 8" 100 yd. gong I like to shoot at.

 

[gunpa]

I too get them on paper up close. It's amazing what happens between 25 and 50 yards. Then out to 100. You find out real quick if it's a keeper or a stinker!