Please clarify what a high power score of 1245-73X means?

[Rule3]

What are the numbers and what is the -73x??

I searched but can not find anything, if there is a link that explains this please let me know.
Thanks

https://www.ssusa.org/articles/2021...power-rifle-long-range-national-championship/

With a score of 1245-73X, Oliver Milanovic is this year's NRA National High Power Rifle Long-Range National Champion and winner of the Tompkins Trophy. Classified as a High Master, Milanovic's score also garnered him the High Palma Rifle award.

 

[CapnMac]

1245 is the total of the points scored, which is usually measured against some maximum number, perhaps 1250 in this case.
The "-73X" refers to the number of shots into the "X" ring.

 

[Rule3]

1245 is the total of the points scored, which is usually measured against some maximum number, perhaps 1250 in this case.
The "-73X" refers to the number of shots into the "X" ring.

I thought that the X was that, but figured that was to easy!. Thanks

 

[Bwana John]

X's are tie breakers in case of the same score. They count as 10 points, the next ring is also 10, then 9,8,7.....

 

[Slamfire]

In Smallbore Prone, the winner is often decided by X counts. These are the targets of two really good shooters on the same relay.





With shooters of this skill level, with 160 round cumulative scores at the end of the day, it is probably one of them might have dropped a point. But not necessarily. Then the top dog is decided by X count. For the 40 round matches, and these targets represent half of the 50 yard match, I got to tell you, drop a point and you plunge down, down, down, in the rankings. Drop two points and pretty much, you are out of it for the day!

I had a terrible day in the Nationals, dropped ten points in one day. My goose was cooked for the event.

If you do this in Bullseye Pistol, shoot a 10 X clean, we will all cheer for you, and your picture, with the target, will be posted in the display



this is freaking amazing, the first 45 ACP 10X I have seen



I don't know when V's or X's were instituted, but at some point, too many shooters were cleaning the target and there had to be a way to break the numerical ties.



Based on an article by Clark, in the 50's, too many shooters were cleaning the 25 yard slow fire target in Bullseye Pistol, so the same target was moved out to 50 yards. I think that was evil, fifty yards with a pistol is impossible. But some do it.

 

[Rule3]

Thanks! Damn that is good shooting.

OK another "dumb" question. The paper targets that have a square on top and then a bull rings underneath. Whats with that? Do they aim at the square with sights adjusted to drop into the bullseye rings or what? Or is that for sighting in??

Kinda like this one

 

[Bwana John]

Thanks! Damn that is good shooting.

OK another "dumb" question. The paper targets that have a square on top and then a bull rings underneath. Whats with that? Do they aim at the square with sights adjusted to drop into the bullseye rings or what? Or is that for sighting in??

Kinda like this one

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If you shoot out the middle of the target, there is nothing to use to aim at.

 

[Slamfire]

Thanks! Damn that is good shooting.

OK another "dumb" question. The paper targets that have a square on top and then a bull rings underneath. Whats with that? Do they aim at the square with sights adjusted to drop into the bullseye rings or what? Or is that for sighting in??

Kinda like this one

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I noticed functionally similar targets being used in F Class, and on electronic targets. F Class shooters are blowing out the center of the aiming point, and once it is gone, there is nothing to aim at!. So, at least on the electronic targets, the aiming point is above, or below where the bullet impacts. The F class shooter gets a sighting shot period, adjusts the elevation up or down, moves the cross hairs around in the aiming point to compensate for wind, the bullet lands in the middle of the scoring target.

Back in the day, when shooters used post front sights and rear aperatures, at 1000 yards, the bull would disappear, or be so blurry due to mirage, that attempting a flat tire, center hold, and even a 6 OC hold against the black was impossible. So, you more or less had a "frame hold". The whole darn frame, target bull and all, balanced like a pin head on top of your front post. You had to add a lot of elevation to be in the black, but at least you could more , or less, see what you were doing!

Do that enough times and you get real skeptical about all the claimed one shot, one kill, thousand yard claims. One thousand yard is one hell of a long way out there. But, no fear, I am reading in the popular press of cartridges that make 1200 to 1500 yard hits, a cake walk.

 

[Jim Watson]

Thanks! Damn that is good shooting.

OK another "dumb" question. The paper targets that have a square on top and then a bull rings underneath. Whats with that? Do they aim at the square with sights adjusted to drop into the bullseye rings or what? Or is that for sighting in??

Kinda like this one

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That is a benchrest target. You can aim at any of the four outside corners, four inside corners, or put a dot reticle in the middle. Scope will be adjusted offset so point of impact will not chew up the aiming square.
The rings don't mean anything, all that is required for group shooting is to stay inside the black border.
Serious benchrest matches have a moving target backer to show how many shots were fired when the group is one not very ragged hole.

 

[Nature Boy]

I kept trying to back into the course of fire to figure out what the max would have been to see how many shots he dropped but I couldn’t make the math work. I even went to the NRA match program for the nationals to look for the Long Range Palma course of fire and still couldn’t figure it out.

I believe the Tompkins Trophy is the aggregate of several matches.

I was able to find this however

Milanovic also won the Palma Individual Trophy Match with an impressive 450-30X score, not dropping a single point.

The Palma Long Range Course of fire is:

15 rounds at 800 yards
15 rounds at 900 yards
15 rounds at 1,000 yards

A perfect score would be putting all 45 rounds inside the 10 ring (450 points) and inside the x ring (45x).

His score of 450-30x came pretty damn close to perfect.

Here’s what makes it even more impressive. He’s shooting this score with a Palma rifle, .308 155g bullets, prone with a sling and iron sights.

Quite a feat

 

[Jim Watson]

And you only get two sighting shots at the 800 yard line. Better know your come-ups.

For international Palma matches, the limit is .308, maximum 156 gr bullet.
Internal US matches allow heavier bullets.

In the old days, the match was shot with hardball ammo of the host country. You would need a US barrel and a British barrel, bullet diameter was that different.

 

[Pete D.]

"50 yards with a pistol"
For reference, the national record for 20 shots outdoors on he 50 yard target is 200-11X. Set back in 1982 by B.D. Harmon. The second place is 199-8X held by two men, Ron Steinbrecker and Steve Reiter.