BenGunn

I find that there is a point, where you have to admit to youself, that if you want to take it further you will have to do some things that you may not have been prepared to do so far. Speaking for myself, I have been having great fun so far shooting fairly well in IPSC, but have not been willing to do a whole lot of practice, have not found it necessary to practice movement, shooting positions, and all the other stuff that only shaves fractions of a second off the time here and there. But having reached this level, I have been forced to realise, that if I want to take it further, I will have to do those things, including getting my precision a lot better. Because the guys I will be competing against, all have been doing those things meticulously, and I have no chance at all beating them if I'm not able to do the same things, and better. Being able to do precision at long distances, reflects at how you are able to do at shorter distances too, and eventually what you can do when shooting fast as well. So, you don't need it, if you are happy where you are, but if you want to compete better, you will have to.

Thank you for your responses. Unfortunately we didn't have another STI to check with, but we did check the ammo in other guns. The sights were also my first thought, but they were rock solid, so nothing there. We live in europe, so a return of the gun to factory will be cumbersome and time consuming, but it seems it will be the only way forward. I did ask my friend if there was a test target included with the gun, as we have seen with other guns, were the guns have been tested, but he didn't get any from STI. The STI topmodels have allways been my "dream guns" but after this experience I don't know anymore.

A friend of mine just got the STI Apeiro, and tested it at our local shooting range. Had a nice feel to it, and he just shot about 20 rounds at the target 25 Yards away, not being especially precise. The hits were in a group of maybe 10-15 inches, so he tried to be more precise. And again. And again. And it got worse every time. In the end we both tried shooting from a rest at about 10 yards, and three shots would be hitting totally different places, maybe 25 inches apart. I could be more precise throwing darts. So - have anybody ever tried anything like this? Must be some sort of error in manufacturing, or?