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I can answer that one. I'm a retired machinist and only three things can go wrong when you're shooting High Power. You, the rifle or the ammo. A lot of people can see where the ammo can fail because if failures to fire and jams. they can also see where they themselves can fail by screwing up a shot, going too fast or slow and not reading the wind. Not too many people can understand when their rifle fails. Loose sights, loose bedding, the barrel finally wearing out.
I shot this one match rifle and I could never get it to work right and I noticed the rear sight was loose. It was like that from the factory. I had to send it back to get it replaced. The front sight on my AR loosened up and I had to set-screw it into place. A friend had a 2000 dollar rifle that never shot as good as he thought. He sold it and the guy who bought it immediately noticed a wrong lead angle to the barrel. It cost less than a 100 dollars to get it fixed and my friend never shot High Power after that. My friend could have sent it back to the maker but he just didn't have the experience to know better. If you practice as much as you can without getting better, have someone check out the rifle.

This is not so much a reply to Shooter 2.5 as it is a little more info. There were several inaccuracies in the Boulder Camera's article, but not too important. First, the last name is Von Letkemann, not Letkemann. He got it right once but that's more than can be expected usually in Boulder. He quoted my comment about red necked, beer swilling Bambi shooters but did not repeat what I said about our club being more representative of the community as a whole than any other single organization in the county. Yes, we have a good number of doctors,lawyers, bankers, etc. but we also have electricians, carpenters, construction workers, students and you name it. We discriminate only to the point that we try to keep out anyone too dumb to handle a firearm safely. The club was not "designed" for 250, it was "intended" years ago to try for as many as 250 members. That number was hoped for when we had around 100. At 300+ plus, we set a limit of 500 which filled as soon as we announced the limit. It's a good club with hundreds of great members, unfortunately we can't handle all the people who would like to belong - it would be a case of loving it to death. We hold over 60 matches of various types each year which are open to all. We are an anomaly in an area where the politics and media are definitely not pro-gun. Visit our website boulderrifleclub.com for more info.