07/10/2026
Team – So, can we find the 200m magic formula? 🤔
After the last 200m Fly shoot, I was really keen to see how that batch of ELEY Limited Match performed through the Vudoo Gun Works V22 single shot at 50m.
I also wanted to look at the velocities on my Garmin Xero C1 and see if there was anything in the data that might help identify am******on that will perform at 200m.
I don't get much time to shoot at the moment, so I took advantage of the weekend and headed back to the range the very next day.
Unfortunately, the conditions were absolutely horrendous. Switching winds, blowing a gale in every direction and constantly changing before I could even spot the switch. Not exactly ideal for am******on testing.
Normally, I'll shoot two 10-shot groups when testing a batch. With the cost of am******on these days, that's about as much as I can justify.
However, due to the conditions the first 10 shot group was absolutely terrible, so I shot a further two 10 shots groups because after what this batch had done at 200m, I wanted to give it every opportunity to show me what it could do.
And honestly…I was surprised.
The am******on shot okay, but I have several batches that shoot considerably better at 50m.
If I'd only tested this batch at 50m, there's a very good chance I would have overlooked it and not bought anymore.
And then came the velocity data, Terrible. 😂
I was expecting the velocities to be sensational after how well it performed at 200m.
They weren't. What I found particularly interesting was the am******on didn’t produce the velocity numbers I would have expected from something that performed so well as it did at 200m.
I'm trying to find a formula where I can test am******on at 50m, look at the groups and velocity data, and confidently select the batches worth taking out to 200m.
This batch has just made that a lot harder.
It didn't stand out at 50m, the velocity numbers weren't impressive.
Yet at 200m…It absolutely smoked.
So once again, I'm reminded of something Eric Cortina often says, “Believe in the target.”
At the end of the day, nobody scores your velocity, nobody scores your SD and nobody looks at your target and says, “Mate, that’s a terrible group, but what an impressive SD.” 😂
They score the holes in the target.
I'm still going to keep collecting the data because there has to be something we can learn from it.
However, the more I test, the more I realise that trying to find a shortcut can sometimes create a bigger problem than simply doing the test properly in the first place.
But this has reinforced one thing for me, There are no shortcuts.
If you want to know whether a batch will shoot at 200m…You need to test it at 200m.
And that's bloody inconvenient when you live so far from the range. 😂
TEST. DON'T GUESS.
Because Targets Don't Lie. 🎯