Check Out the Legendary .009″ Group By Mac McMillan
.009″ — The Record That Stood for 40 Years.
In 1973 Mac McMillan shot an amazing 100-yard, .009″ five-shot group in a benchrest match. The .009″ group was measured with a 60x microscope for verification. Mac McMillan shot the group using a handbuilt prototype McMillan rifle with an early McMillan stock.
Mac’s .009″ group was the “Holy Grail” of rifle accuracy. This .009″ record was considered by many to be unbreakable, a record that would “stand for all time”. Well, it took 40 years, but someone finally broke Mac’s record with an even smaller group. In 2013, Mike Stinnett shot a .0077″ five-shot group using a 30 Stewart, a .30 caliber wildcat based on the 6.5 Grendel. Stinnett’s .0077″ group now stands as the smallest 100-yard group ever shot in registered benchrest competition.*
Read About .0077″ group HERE.
Stinnett’s success doesn’t diminish the significance of Mac McMillan’s .009″ group in the history of benchrest competition. For four decades Mac’s group stood as the ultimate standard of rifle accuracy*. For those of you who have never seen Mac McMillan’s .009″ group, here it is, along with the NBRSA World Record certificate. The target now hangs in the McMillan Family Museum.
*Somebody else might claim a smaller group, but unless moving backers or electronic targets were used, it cannot be verified. Moving target backers are used at registered benchrest matches to ensure that five (5) shots are actually fired in each group. That eliminates any doubt.
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haha Amazing group!
With the equipment available in 1973 compared to 2013–it is like comparing apples and oranges.
Scopes,stocks,bullets etc have evolved 10 fold.
1973 Super Shoot winning agg. .4727
2013 ” ” ” ” .2728
Jim
Wow it really is small’
I never had a chance o see it that close until now.
Not only amazing equipment for the time but fantastic shooting”
I see a pic of the group but what about the prototype rifle used to shoot this record? Are there any pics of it available?
i like how there is no mention of the cartridge used to shoot the group. must really piss off the ppc crowd that both records are not done with ppc’s!! lee
@duceman, the cartridge used was a .219 Donaldson Wasp loaded with earlier Speer bullets made out of spent .22lr cases. The reamer was crafted by Henriksen, the barrel was a rebore by Cliff LaBounty of an old .177 airgun bull barrel,fitted to an Enfield P17 action on a McMillan stock. Quite an achievement if you think about it.
The cartridge was the 222 Remington, the barrel and the action was made by McMillan. The scope used was a boosted 12X Leupold.
The PPC is about aggs not tight groups.
You got a rifle that shoots THAT GOOD and you STILL cant hit center?? Do push ups!
Well, the rifle is in the McMillan Museum. Mac never fired it after that and retired from competition. Gale told me the barrel was made by Pat and it was one of those “not good enough” for a customer. Pat button rifled barrels. The action is a full diameter bolt, right bolt, right port, round action. Machined by Mac. The rest I wont tell but you’ll be hard pressed to purchase its equal today.