Miss Match?

[Bart B.]

What about a match that's scored by miss distance from target center?

Target would be a black round bullseye 5 MOA at all sorts of ranges. No scoring rings. Both rifle and pistol. All sorts of shooting positions. Artificial (bench, bag, pod) support and/or slings may or may not allowed.

Sighters may or may not be allowed. One or more shots fired in some time limit at some range. For example, a 5 - 30" - 100 match would be 5 shots in 30 seconds at 100 yards. A 10 - 5' - 500 then means 10 shots in 5 minutes at 500 yards. How 'bout a 1 - 10" - 1000 miss match from sitting?

Maybe list them as "1-10s@1000y standing" for 1 shot in 10 seconds at 1000 yards standing up. There's no limit to what could be used.

All shot holes' radius would be measured from bullseye center as well as calculated group center. Results put in a computer program to calculate these results that would be posted:

* Mean radius of all shots from target center.

* Closest shot to target center.

* Mean radius of all shots from group center.

* Extreme spread of group.

 

[Jim Watson]

Kind of a computerized version of "string measure," ain't it?
Still seen in muzzleloading competition; from one program:
Target Scoring: The match will be scored by string measure. From the center of the X to the center of each shot hole, shortest total string measure wins.
Mean radius just adds some arithmetic.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

Sounds like a traditional frontier meet-up or trapper rondezvous match. Very early muzzleloading matches used a plain board with a black mark for the aiming point; closest to the center of the mark won.