1 MOA Challenge 2012

Last call for this years 1 MOA challenge. Saturday and Sunday Sept. 1 & 2.

This is post 141 of this thread so there has been lots of talk, but not too much action.

Let the excuses begin.......
 
I would like to have tried it this summer, but shooting has taken a back seat for me temporarily as my wife finished school, and I spent my time with the kids and at my business.

These are not excuses, just reality of my life at this time.
 
With a totally factory gun, I do not think that 10 shots sub MOA at 300 yards is all that easy. I wonder what the percentage of factory guns and owner combinations can do this when called upon. I know there are some as I have seen em but I'm not surprised there are no takers.
 
i was out this weekend, went and did well with new reloads, hit about 15 1/2 moa at 3 and 400 yards, bout 30-40 in the moa range of a 3" circle at 3 and 400 yards out of 90 rounds. not bad for a rifle i just picked up and started shooting for 800 scope and rifle.
 
Underthegun said:
Did anyone make it out to give it a try this weekend?
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Practice on Saturday and didn't have any takers. Sunday was a match and one of our experienced shooters shot a very nice 50.8V at 300m and 50.9V on the same 300m target at 400m. He was shooting a custom Barnard, I believe in 6.5x55.
 
no takers on vancouver island, myself and another local pulled it off with savage f class rifles in 6br, both rifles also shot 10 shot groups under 6 inches at 600 yards, we'll keep trying to arrange another range for it in the near future.
 
warrenb said:
With a totally factory gun, I do not think that 10 shots sub MOA at 300 yards is all that easy. I wonder what the percentage of factory guns and owner combinations can do this when called upon. I know there are some as I have seen em but I'm not surprised there are no takers.
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With a proper, all-out custom target rifle, it's a heck of a lot harder than it sounds.

Re: your question of what percentage of factory gun + owner combos can do it, I would estimate less than perhaps 1%.

Given an honest 1/2-MOA F-Class rifle, it takes a good shooter to accomplish the task (it's no 'gimme'!)
 
Ishodu said:
I would say my stock Savage is able to do it, but I am not always up to this task. I did shoot a 50 of 50 at 500yards with it at the ORA shoot last month on the F-class target.
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Nice shooting. Once my kids get a few years older I hope to get much more involved with the ORA. I had great fun at a vintage rifle shoot a couple of years ago. I have to admit, it is a lot more strenuous than I would have thought.
 
Ishodu said:
I would say my stock Savage is able to do it, but I am not always up to this task. I did shoot a 50 of 50 at 500yards with it at the ORA shoot last month on the F-class target.
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Congrats on shooting a 50 on the F-Class target, that's a pretty meaningful shooting accomplishment (as an aside, is the ORA using ICFRA targets or DCRA targets?). It's a lot more common nowadays than it used to be, but an F-Class "possible" is still pretty meaningful (it's a heck of a lot more challenging that it is for a TR shooter to fire a 50 out of 50 on a TR target, and that is significant enough).

Shooting a 50 on an F-Class target is pretty much the moral equivalent of meeting the "1 MOA Challenge" that Maynard set out (on the 500 yard target it is _slightly_ more generous than 1 MOA, but then again it is at 500y rather than 300y/m).
 
500 Yard groups of the day

conditions were breezy but here is 2 500 yard groups both shot with Savage F class rifles in 6br, I was using 90 grain bullets and John was using 105's, both loaded over varget in lapua cases.

Mine, 3.88 inches

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John's 3.79 inches

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It can be done, people just have to come out and prove it.
Both of these targets were shot in a match today on Vancouver Island
 
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