Thread: A Match report - Half MOA Tikka's do exist

And half MOA Tikka shooters too.

So today we had the finals of our summer gong competition - 11 Shooters.

Rifles ranged from full PRS match*guns to sporters, including a bog standard Tikka 6.5 PRC.

The course of fire comprised 5 rounds at a MOA dot at 100M, 55 potential points for all rounds within the dot. 12 rounds at the Eric Cortinal Blackjack Challenge plates at 480M, 162 possible points, and 10 rounds at a modified Texas Plinker challenge (2MOA to 0.5MOA plates) at 571M for a possible 37 points.

The weather was bright and sunny, but with a sneaky "puffy" westerly breeze ranging from about 0 to 10km/h (and changing within a heartbeat, literally).

We have to validate at 100M on our range so the 1.0 MOA dot is a great way to start. There were several sub MOA groups but none entirely within the dot (or point of aim). 3 shooters scored 30 points for 4 shots "in".

Back to 500Y for the "Blackjack"challenge. This is usually a good one in the wind, you're starting with a 300mm plate which is a big aid on reading the wind. Unless you cock it up like I did, I kept drifting down the left side of the plates, missed 5 consecutive shots on the 250mm plate before I got going again Aaarrrrggggh. No-one was hitting the 2" gong, until a young guy I've only see at the range once before shot his 308, he nailed it on his 7th shot but ran out of time to make any more hits (there's a 2 min limit).

Now one for the Tikka "fan-bois" - a chap who shoots a lot and comes the range quite a bit took the mound with a T3X 6.5 PRC. He hit the first 4 plates with 4 rounds, dropped his first shot at 100mm gong but got it next shot. He then hit the 50mm gong with his next 3 shots, dropped one then hit it again. missed with the last one. Absolutely phenomenal shooting, that's a score of 99 on the EC challenge with a stock hunting rifle. It left the crew stunned, me especially. Of course at that point he'd won the match. Of course he got a lot of barracking and was threatened by the Match Director (me) that if he missed the 0.5 MOA target at 600 points would be deducted.

Back to 600Y we went. A very hard day in the office ensued with two top shooters scoring zero, but there were a couple of possibles, one got the 50mm on shot 8, one on shot 5, and I finally came good and got it on shot 8 as well. The Tikka guy, well he didn't flinch (pun intended) and of course he nailed the 50mm on shot 5, so scored another 35 points, comprehensively winning the match!

Who says you can't shoot 0.5MOA eh @gimp !