SR rifle accuracy requirements

DCRA NSCC 2011 rulebook still shows sitting, kneeling or squatting as the positions for the 400 and 200 in match 12. Unless you're talking about the 2012 rules? Sounds like perhaps they're going to do away with the legacy matches and perhaps mirror the current CFSAC matches?
 
IMO matches 1-12 should be the basis of CFSAC.
Ditch practice week. Walk backs are all you need and and all you get. Matches 1-12 including stage 2 can be run in 2 days. Then 4 days of mixed pistol, machine gun, CQB, moving man and team matches scheduled off a matrix. Less sitting around and more quality competition. Awards, dinner, drinks and go home.

As for the worry about accuracy I placed 5th last year with a rifle that started NSCC shooting 2moa and opened up to 3moa by the end of CFSAC.
 
Gunnerlove said:
As for the worry about accuracy I placed 5th last year with a rifle that started NSCC shooting 2moa and opened up to 3moa by the end of CFSAC.
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Agreed. A good driver will do as well as his gun lets him. A better gun "might" have gotten you a few more Vs or maybe a point or two in the wind. But that's all.

Before I retired from CF I placed in top 5 at CFSAC a number of times. That was with my C7 with an incredibly eroded throat and tens of thousands of rounds through the barrel that I knew about personally - and who knows what about BEFORE I got it off the rack. (It was ser#86AA00251, one of the first ones - so probably a LOT) I don't remember what it grouped like under ideal conditions at 100m. Probably 3MOA, perhaps as good as 2. I fired a couple groups at fig 12s at 100m on Monday mornings to confirm my zero hadn't wandered away into Elcan world and then carried on...It was always good enough and I had a Karma thing going on that I didn't want to give up. Towards the end of my "paid" career in shooting, the R22eR forced me to use one of their team rifles in Bisley and it grouped about a minute - but I suspect them of seriously cheating with those rifles. Seriously - what C7 shoots a minute!?!?!?

Since retiring I have treated myself and built up a "better" Armalite gun with a floated Kreiger barrel (which I regret owing to to the added length and weight of the barrel...When I rebuild, it is going back to 20 inches) It shoots under a minute with match ammo. But I shoot IVI whenever I come accross it, because it shoots through my rifle pretty darn good and is a lot less hassle than loading my own;)

But here's the thing -- looking over my DCRA scores SINCE retiring, I have won the top civvie award a couple times, and placed in the top five a couple times -- but I have NEVER fired a score better than my best two years shooting CFSAC as a serving member with my crappy old C7. (I'm only comparing the years firing matches 1-12 with the agg of 600. I fired CFSAC a number of times when the Agg was only 585)

To me - that suggests that two months of solid training before the matches made a hell of a lot more difference than getting a better gun did.
 
GL, I'm picking up what you're putting down. That sounds like some quality learning experience there. Unfortunately I'm not in your gang so I'm jealous I can't take part in such events!
 
I was one of the competitors in the NSCC 200m deliberate sudden death tie breaker match that Tiriaq referred to. I used a 20 inch Colt HBAR, from the prone position is a pretty consistent 1.25 moa rifle. I concur with the above recommendations about putting position shooting skills and fitness above mechanical accuracy. I would also recommend also applying sports psychology techniques to help keep focused in the match.
 
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