Taliv said:
83% hit the 425 yard deer (even though some may have taken all 10 rounds to get their 2 hits)
51% hit the 574 yard deer
7% hit the 754 yard deer
nobody hit all 4
This past weekend, our state club had the match I mentioned above, so I wanted to revisit this thread, just to provide the stats.
Match format:
“Terrorist Head” targets at every 100 yards from 300 to 900 yards, plus a 965 yard target, hit to advance, with one opportunity to buy back in (aka, miss all of that range, pay to come back in at the next range). Three chances to make an impact at 300 to 700, 5 chances to hit the 800 and 900 yard targets, then 10 rounds at the 965 target (effectively as tiebreakers). Targets are ~8x12” side profile silhouettes. 27 shooters started, 11 made it to the last round.
I’ll summarize and tabulate results below, percentages of shooters who made impacts, then percentages who made 1st round impacts. Reminding here - the buyback opportunity means farther ranges can have higher percentages than closer. “Connected” percentages, in the spirit of this thread, reflect shooters who made the impact out of the total starting shooters.
Out of 3 rounds to make a hit:
300yrds 96% connected, 81% first round
400yrds 85% connected, 56% first round
500yrds 93% connected, 63% first round
600yrds 67% connected, 22% first round
700yrds 74% connected, 22% first round
Out of 5 rounds to make 1 hit:
800yrds 59% connected, 7% first round
900yrds 19% connected, none first round
Out of 10 rounds:
965yrds 26% connected, 7% first round
In fairness, since only 11 shooters made it to the final stage, 2 first round impacts out of 11 shooters is really 18% of shooters who fired the shots, not 7%, which reflects 2 1st round impacts out of the 27 shooters who started the match, including 16 who didn’t get to attempt that final stage.
Looking at it from the other side, failures to impact at each range:
1 out of 27 failed to connect at 300
4 out of 27 failed to connect at 400
2 out of 27 failed to connect at 500
9 out of 26 failed to connect at 600
6 out of 26 failed to connect at 700
8 out of 23 failed to connect at 800
11 out of 18 failed to connect at 900
4 out of 11 failed to connect at 965
In a manner of speaking, the majority of shooters were able to make impacts out to 965yards, and a majority of shooters were able to make first round hits out to 500.