https://www.shootingillustrated.com/content/how-do-you-define-accuracy/
Tamara hits on something here that really bugs me. When I watch most reviews on YT for handguns they will all say how accurate a gun is right after they blast away at a rather large steel plate at a rather close distance and hit it more often than not. One step up from that are the guys that will send a target out to 7 or 10 yards and fire at a moderate clip of about .5 to 1 second per round and if they keep them on the B-8 replacement canter they think they have really done something. That kind of stuff doesn't really tell me much about the mechanical accuracy of the gun. The best I see usually is Aaron Cowan doing his 5 round zero check at 25 off of a bench before he beats the hell out of the optic, or Honest Outlaw going back to 50, 75, 100 yards with what he is shooting and hitting (or sometimes missing) steel with it. This is something I miss from the magazines where the good gun writers would do as Tamara describes and test a number of different loads from a good setup.
Tamara hits on something here that really bugs me. When I watch most reviews on YT for handguns they will all say how accurate a gun is right after they blast away at a rather large steel plate at a rather close distance and hit it more often than not. One step up from that are the guys that will send a target out to 7 or 10 yards and fire at a moderate clip of about .5 to 1 second per round and if they keep them on the B-8 replacement canter they think they have really done something. That kind of stuff doesn't really tell me much about the mechanical accuracy of the gun. The best I see usually is Aaron Cowan doing his 5 round zero check at 25 off of a bench before he beats the hell out of the optic, or Honest Outlaw going back to 50, 75, 100 yards with what he is shooting and hitting (or sometimes missing) steel with it. This is something I miss from the magazines where the good gun writers would do as Tamara describes and test a number of different loads from a good setup.