I don't really know what MOA precisely means, but I've accepted it doesn't matter because I am the accuracy bottleneck for my guns, not the guns themselves. I know it stands for "minute of angle," as if that makes any more sense to me 🤣
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@MorosKostas Minute = 1/60th of a degree. For guns, it works out to roughly 1 inch per 100 yards. So if you're shooting 4 MOA at 100 yards, your grouping is within a 4-inch circle. 12 MOA at 100 yards would be within a 12-inch circle; the latter scenario is obviously the difference between
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@MorosKostas A minute of angle (MOA) is a unit of angular measurement that defines one-sixtieth of a degree, and it is used in shooting to measure the accuracy of a firearm or to calculate adjustments for distance. In the context of shooting, one MOA is roughly equal to 1 inch at 100 yards.
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@MorosKostas It is an arc that subtends 1/60 of a degree, and is also known as an arc minute, about 1.047 inches at 100 yards. Note that the full moon is around 30 MOA in size as seen from earth.
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@MorosKostas If I remember correctly, the Standard that military M-16s are required to meet is 4.5MOA. That's a (not exactly, but close enough) 4 1/2 inch "cone" or "circle" at 100 yards. It's possible, even likely, that the minimum Spec is exceeded in actual production units. BUT when
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@MorosKostas The vast majority of the time, it's the nut behind the trigger (the Trigger nut) that is the accuracy problem.
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@MorosKostas I use MOBG - minute-of-bad-guy. Can I hit a human sized target center mass at whatever range I am engaging with sufficient accuracy to neutralize the target? If yes, I am happy.
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@MorosKostas My 12yo can outshoot most gun owners https://t.co/EZDAXcoDI9
My daughter Chloe shot her first Precision Rifle Series (PRS) match at Cameo today! It was a really hard regional qualified match, but she picked it up quickly and started getting impacts! She drew her first cow elk license for this fall. Now I know she’s ready!
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@MorosKostas I'm a life-long shooter. Self-taught. Me and my rifle together are an 8 MOA shooter most of the time. I think that's pretty damn good, and it's better than most of my friends.
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@MorosKostas The amount of training required to need a weapon with tighter MOA than the average bargain AR provides is higher than most people realize. Case in point…I was USMC before they implemented ACOGs…iron sights with a wobbly ass upper receiver that had at least an 1/8-1/4” play
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@MorosKostas Minute of angle or 1/60 of the degree mark you see on a protractor. At 100 yards it translates into approximately 1 inch group.
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@MorosKostas I took a Precision Scoped Rifle course at the Sig Academy in NH several years ago. You become intimately familiar with the application of MOA.
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@MorosKostas MOA - minute of angle When used in this context, it is about how accurate your rifle is at 100 yards. I have several sub-MOA rifles. That means they are accurate to LESS than an inch at 100 yards. Each MOA at 100 yards is “approximately” 1 inch. If you have a 4-MOA rifle, that
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@MorosKostas I shoot practical rifle events monthly. 100% of the guys in the event can hit a 300 yard 9” round target…after running and under the clock. Obviously not “battle” conditions, but still very acceptable. All sorts of rifles with a wide range of optics.
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@MorosKostas Bold honesty is refreshing and likely more crucial to hitting targets than knowing an acronym you can’t explain.
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@MorosKostas If you can land 30 rounds into an 8-inch circle at 100 yards, you're doing pretty okie dokie in my book.
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@MorosKostas NOT trying to hijack but this has to do with MOA. im 67 , High blood pressure ( getting better on Carnivore) BUT let say 500 yrds my crosshairs literally move some 6 to 8 inches with every heartbeat. On my 338 lapua M I have a Timney trigger adjusted to 8 oz which helps
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@MorosKostas It just means if you shoot roughly a 1" group at 100 yards it will roughly be 2" at 200 3" at 300 continue on etc etc. 10" at 1000 yards. Now in the real world that doesn't play out
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@MorosKostas The Target in the pic was at 300 yards, group size 1.73 inches. If this group was shot at 100 yards, the MOA of the group would be 1.73. Since it was shot at 300 yards, it's an MOA of 0.57. 1.73/3= 0.57 A minute of angle is simply a division of Degrees, minutes and seconds.
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@MorosKostas It’s merely a number based on your last round. Just like DUPR for pickleball. SOOOooo past tense. 😬
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