Do You Need an Expensive Gun to Compete in a Competition? Ruger Mark IV vs Heritage Tactical Cowboy

[@JohnPublic-dk7zd]

To a point, you can buy more accuracy...that is true...we're old Fudds, and don't sweat the size of our groups with any firearm, but i do appreciate the folks committed to accuracy, they do a service for all shooters...finishing my point, eventually you arrive at extremely diminished returns for the money spent, a $5,000 gun probably just as accurate as a $15,000 gun (within a hundredth of an inch?)...it's all good...

[@BallistiXPro]

Agreed, and well put.

[@ЮрійГордієнко-х2з]

99% of all "accuracy" difference - just the trigger that costs maximum $200...

[@JohnPublic-dk7zd]

@@ЮрійГордієнко-х2з you may be correct, but as old fudds we are stuck with stock triggers ($200 is a fortune when you're on fixed income)...I do believe some firearms are just inherently more accurate than other as manufactured, but oddly there can be an old cheapo that shoots lights out just because it was charmed when made, and on very rare occasion an expensive built firearm will never be ultimately accurate...our collection is not amazing for accuracy, but the guns do go bang on demand, which will have to suffice for us...and, perversely, there IS something fun about hitting 4 inch targets at 100 yards only about a quarter of the time with a cheap gun, cheap scope, and cheap ammo...

[@BallistiXPro]

@JohnPublic-dk7zd I hear you brother. Truth be told most guns are more accurate than the shooter. We just adjust the gun to make it accommodate us, and it allows us to control it with greater ease. Keep on shooting, cheep, or expensive the fun rating is the exact same. 😁

[@ЮрійГордієнко-х2з]

@@JohnPublic-dk7zd We're talking about pistols which we shoot from stand position hands only, no any support. Even very bad pistol will shoot from fixed stand groups maximum 2 inches at 50 yards. And that almost impossible to do without any support by 2 hands or one hand only. So, how critical is barrel accuracy? I'd say ~5% and even less, may be. But wrong trigger or bad habits can dissipate your group to 10 inches or more easily. No accuracy difference for 4" vs 6" inches barrels if use red dot, for example. so?

[@markwolfe4924]

what type of competition are shooting ?

[@BallistiXPro]

Precision Pistol, also know as Bullseye. You shoot one handed at 50 yard and 25 yard targets. It very challenging, and also very fun.

[@BenSmith-gv6hb]

Can you shoot it with the rail off?

[@BallistiXPro]

That version of the revolver you can not. The rail is used as part of the rear sites. So if you want to use iron sites the rear of the picatinny rail has the rear site built into it. However, they do make different versions of the gun and they do sell version that do not have the rail on it and just have the regular rear site. That sounds like it would be the way to go for you if you did like that particular revolver.