My shooting goal these last few years was firstly to get to regularly shoot sub inch 5 shot groups at 100 yards. That having been achieved I have been concentrating on the finer points with a view to achieving sub half MOA and half inch groups at the same range.
After many times getting four of five under the criterion, this trip the BSA Hornet .22 shot two sub half inch / sub half MOA groups in a series of eleven groups. Here they are:
0.45 inch / 11.43 mm / 0.43 MOA at 101 yards ( MOA is 1.047 inches at 100 yards )
0.475 inches/ 12.06 mm / 0.45 MOA at 101 yards.
Here are 9 of the eleven targets. ( The one over on the right was shot with the RWS Excalibre so is not counted ). These nine averaged sub inch at 0.93 inches / 23.6 mm / 0.89 MOA:
And together with these which were the first two of the eleven groups the average was 0.923 inches / 23.4 mm / 0.88 MOA: They were shot on my normal plough disc and measured 1.0 and 0.80 inches:
The smaller group has four shots measuring ctc 0.25 inches / 6.35 mm / 0.24 MOA.
Conditions were as good as it gets between sun down and dark when the wind died.
BSA .22 Hornet, blue printed by John Bowkett, shooting JSB Exact 15.9 gr .22 round nosed pellets at MV 895 fps 28.29 fpe.
This was a blue ribbon afternoon and one which I take great delight in sharing ... Kind regards, Harry Fuller ( Yrrah ).
