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The World Records for Group Shooting

Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 2:03 pm
by MoA
The new records for benchrest are:


Unlimited 5 shot single group record at 200 yards, .0846 shot by Mark Walker on 7/3/2009

Heavy Varmint 5 shot single group at 200 yards .096 shot by Mark Buettgen on 8/22/2009

Light Varmint 5 shot single group at 200 yards .075 shot by Johnnie Stewart on 7/17/2009

and last, but by a long shot not least, the Sporter 5 shot single group at 200 yards .086 shot by Tom Libby on 9/25/2009. This one is a 50-5X also, it's a really beautiful target


Besides those single group records we have the following new aggregate and grand aggregate records.

Unlimited 8, 10 shot groups at 100 yards the new record aggregate is .1941, shot by Tony Boyer on 9/21/2009

Unlimited 5, 10 shot groups at 100 yards. The new record aggregate is .199 shot by Rick Graham on 7/3/2009

Light Varmint 5, 5 shot groups at 200 yards. The new record aggregate is .1558 shot by Gene Bukys on 9/24/2009

The following records have been broken twice at the nationals in St Louis this year

Light Varmint grand aggregate 5 shots at 100 and 5 shots at 200 yards The new Grand Aggregate record was shot by Jack Neary a fine .1776 and then was bested by Tony Boyer with a great .1719 both shot on 9/24,25/2009

Sporter Grand Aggregate 5 shots at 100 and 5 shots at 200 yards, the new record was shot by Gary O'Cock a fine .1897 and was bested by Jack Neary who shot a .1886 both of these were also shot on 9/24,25/2009

More information can be found here
Keep in mind all measurements are in inches and as the case is fractions of an inch.