Let's Talk About "Accuracy"

[Failure2Stop]

That last bolded AMR should probably be "extreme spread" instead.

Quite right, edited, thank you.

Thanks for this thread. I'll be using the quoted portion from now on. I don't know why I never thought of this before, but it probably explains why I'm always tinkering with my scope when I zero.

It's hard to resist the temptation to spin the knobs when you have a nice group just outside where you want the bullets to be going.
During zeroing, I will adjust boldly on single shots and once I get pretty close to center (within an inch at 100) make my final adjustment (if needed), and then start shooting 5-round groups. I won't make any adjustment to the zero until I have at least 2, and preferably at least 5 groups from which to determine the point that the centers of the groups are revolving around.

Glad that this has been useful to some folks here.

If anyone has any questions or wants clarification on anything, please feel free to post. I will reply as best I can, and add/edit the original post to consolidate everything.