It also fits in with stats that Alan Fraser has published about how scores tend to fall away in big events once we get past 600 yards, and with Williada drumming into us that he reckons we need two and/or ideally three specialist guns, or barrels (he rarely approves of my switch barrels though
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For the five years that I have been shooting F Class, the "Rule Of Thumb" for required accuracy in F Open has always seemed to have been 1/4 MOA. Plenty of shooters seem to claim 1/2 MOA but those who can loudly and proudly claim 1/4 moa are few and far between.
I shoot 1000 Yard BR whenever i can, and shooting two x 10 shot groups in Heavy Gun,(which i have to do with a 9.95 kg F Open rifle) a 10" group Average would win it for you most of the time. Its a totally different game in Light Gun 1000BR with its 3 x 5 shot groups, and the very best I ever did was an average of just over 7.5" for the three. Recently I couldnt help wondering about what sort of "ten shot groups" real people are achieving with real guns under real competition........where there is wind, nerves, sledging etc etc
The stats page below is what happens when you sit in the warm dry home, instead of risking a wet arse at a major Prize Meeting like the Natives OPM at Belmont this weekend that kicks off nine big days of high level shooting.............you have time to look at obscure statistics.
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Thanks to the Hexta electronic targets in use at Natives OPM, i can easily pull off the stats for 6 well known, well travelled, consistently performing F Open shooters, and 5 similarly placed FTR shooters.
I mean no disrepect to any of these F Classers by posting their groups......and i have rounded off to one decimal place anyway.....but that doesnt affect the "trend".
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Steve Nelsons one off 48" group at 1000 obviously takes the average out a long way, but "Hey !!"....it happened, and his groups at 300-600 do a lot to lower the averages over those distances, so all his results are in. There is nothing listed for Steve at 800 yards, only because some sort of glitch in the Hexta system has him as 0 ??
How is our 0.25 MOA requirement looking ?
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Dont get me wrong....I absolutely believe in the power and importance of having goals, and of striving for the best possible accuaracy as a never ending quest, but from these results, it would seem that 3/4 moa accuracy for a ten shot group would get you on the podium most of the time, if you can put them in the right place.
Now i am off to weight sort primers, bullets and cases to load for the NRAA Queens...............
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Speaking of "Primers", after discovering yesterday that the Q Store had none, my local gunshop told me that he has been told that there are about 650,000 CCI BR2 primers on backorder......and not a single box on the water to Australia yet ! I have three x 284 Win barrels running on BR2s and will have about 20 left after the NRAA Queens.
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I have 2500 x CCI450's and 1000 CCI BR4's if anybody is interested in trading some
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