Thanks, I couldn’t find caliber anywhere. I’m with you on repeatability. If you can’t prove it, it’s just a lucky shot. IMO the only shot records that should be recorded are kill shots against armed enemy in real world scenarios.

Given 69 tries, Even I could hit it.

They were all hand lathed, wonder what the DPR with the latest inflation is.

This has been bugging me. I've been wondering if it's really fair to make light of the fact that it took 69 tries to hit the target in this test. I decided to do some math.

Let's say that an accurate rifle is capable of 1 moa groups. What is 1 moa at 4.4 miles?

4.4 miles * 5280 ft/mi * 12 in/ft = 278,784 inches

1 moa @ 4.4 miles:
sin 1/60 degree = x / 278,784 in
0.000291 = x / 278,784 in
0.000291 * 278,784 in = x
x = 81.1 inches

moa of an 8 inch circle @ 4.4 miles:
sin y degrees = 8 in / 278,784 in
sin y = 0.0000287
arc sin 0.0000287 = .00164 deg * 60 min/deg = 0.0986 moa * 60 sec/min = 5.92 seconds of angle (soa)

So about 1/10 moa or 6 soa. That's pretty small. How often would a 1 moa rifle be expected to hit a particular 1/10 moa spot? The area of a 1 moa target at that range would be:
pi*R squared
R = 81.1 in / 2 = 40.55 in
pi * (40.55 in squared) = 5166 square inches

The area of a 1/10 moa target at that range would be:
pi*R squared
R = 8 in / 2 = 4 in
pi * (4 in squared) = 50.27 square inches

50.27 sq in / 5166 sq in = 0.00973 or 0.973%

So you'd have about a 1% chance of randomly hitting a given 8 inch circle with a 1 moa rifle at 4.4 miles. So hitting it once in 69 shots is pretty good, especially considering all the additional variables in taking a shot of that distance.

What I wonder is once they got it dialed in why did they not try for more hits.