M.O.A- Minute of Angle..."It's about an inch at 100 yards," is what most people will say. A minute of angle is really 1.0471996 inches at 100 yards. In geometry the minute is a unit of angle, 1/60th of a degree.
It's always been a curiosity to me on why people are not satisfied with a rifle that shoots 2 inches at 100 yards. Hell, I wish I could shoot a 2 inch group at 100 yards off hand. Extrapolating out to 300 yards, we are looking at a 6 inch grouping. That's plenty fine for shooting an animal the size of an elk or a deer and still hit plenty of vitals. Sure, everyone would love to shoot a half inch group at 100 yards and many rifles with the right ammo might be able to. Besides, many people use this measurement from a benchrest. Who hunts from a benchrest or even a, except for some varmint hunters? Varmint hunters, trying to hit a target at 300 yards the size of a gopher need a super accurate rifle, the rest of use can settle just fine with a 3 MOA rifle, in my opinion.
