Thread: What exactly is a MOA rifle??

As I understand it the minute of angle has to do with the distance to target with the benchmark being one minute of angle at one hundred yards so therefore if you were shooting at fifty yards and wanted to claim sub minute of angle the time the group would need to measure leas than half a minute. Whilst it is not exactly correct, a minute of angle is widely referred to as one inch at a hundred yards.

Yeah a 3 shot group fired on one occasion only at 100 yds which measures 1.047 inches centre to centre qualifies the rifle for ever and a day to be a MOA accurate rifle. Likewise "bug hole" and "clover leaf" groups claims. Some claims that people put up would put there muskets into benchrest comp capability.

That's not withstanding that new out of box accuracy these days can genuinely be =<1 MOA.

Have also seen nice pictures supporting tight groups posted on forums - all good.
Some of the other unsupported claims I treat as a grain of salt.

Generally all TradeMe rifles are capable of substantially less than 1 MOA.

Nice 22 groups BTW.