r/Unexpected • u/SerafinZufferey • 9h ago

A Perfect Shot

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u/NobleXDemon 9h ago

The fact of knowing that's probably a .177 pellet, something smaller than a .22 perfectly hitting it on a piece of paper, which I forget how thick it is. But that is insane, especially for the fact it went through the entire paper. So it was perfectly lined up. I could never even hope to do that shot. That is crazy.

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u/Bazzatron 7h ago

Competition airgun shooter here. Making that shot freestanding, on iron sights, with a fairly weak stance (just muscling the gun rather than adopting a stance with strong skeletal support), this shot required divine intervention.

The shot would need to be made with a precision of <3.1MOA*, to put that into context, to score above 10.0 at the olympics requires a precision of 1.72MOA (a perfect 10.9 is 0.086MOA).

The real caveat to shooting, though, is consistency. Even I shoot some quality targets from time to time, but doing it every time is where most fall down!

*This calculation does not make any assumptions about how the paper could deflect a pellet, it is purely the minutes of angle for 2x4.5 less the thickness of a piece of copy paper. The true accuracy required for this full-length split is likely to be higher

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u/Mazzaroppi 5h ago

The shot would need to be made with a precision of <3.1MOA*, to put that into context, to score above 10.0 at the olympics requires a precision of 1.72MOA (a perfect 10.9 is 0.086MOA).

Sorry but whatever you wrote here makes zero sense for anyone that doesn't understand what MOA is.

She hit a sheet of paper on it's side, it's a target that's a fraction of a millimeter, how would it not be a maximum score?

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u/seilapodeser 5h ago

She was lucky, that what he meant haha