The
VA 1,000 YD Benchrest Club is opening a "Factory Class" for new shooters at all
of our regularly scheduled matches.
Our sister club in NC already holds factory class matches at each of their
matches also and have been very successfull at it. If your interested in trying
out one of your rifles to see what it will do then come on over for a match. You
will fire against other factory rifles only. The matches will continue to be
held throughout year. 5 shot groups will be recorded for your record target
using standard benchrest scores and procedures.
Rules
are:
· factory
barrel
· factory
chamber
· factory
stock (without any attachements except a recoil pad)
· glass
bedding and floating of the barrel channel
· trigger
reworked or replacement trigger.
· after
market muzzle brakes allowed
That's it. Other than that... let's line'um up and may
the best shooter win!
Some prepartory work
will be necessary to ensure success in hitting paper once your at the range.
Tapered bases or the Burris Posi-Line rings using their offset ring inserts that
give you 20+ MOA slope without binding the tube is highly recommended. Leupold
also make a "long range" one piece base mount that has 15 or 20 MOA built into
it if you already own the Leupold style rings. Many regular 1,000yd BR shooters
use the Burris rings with much success.
Some guidelines for what
rifles to use are: Anything that will keep a bullet supersonic at 1000yds.
This can be anything from a 243 Win using the heavier 90-100gr weight match
bullets all the way up to the 30 caliber magnums with 180gr+ weight bullets. If
your going to use the heavy match bullets, be careful to match your bullet weigh
to the twist in your rifles. Most bullet manufacturers print the minimum
recommended twist to stabilize a particular bullet right on the box. If you
can't find this information contact any of the club members below and they will
help you determine what you can or can't use.
Scopes can be anything from 12X
minimum up to what ever you have. Approx. 20X is a good recommended power to
use. It would be preferable if the scope had target knobs on it for ease of
adjustment, but you can get away with standard knobs with some special
consideration and thought before hand.
The best rule of thumb for you
to do at home before coming to a match would be to sight your rifle in at 100yds
to impact 30" high and you should be in the ball park with a high BC bullet out
of todays rifle calibers. If you can't get your rifle to adjust to 30" high at
100yds without runnig out of clicks, then you're probably not going to have enough
adjustment range to get on paper at 1000yds. If you run into this problem,
contact one of the club members below and they wil help you.
For
Information/help Contact:
· Danny
Brooks @ (540) 399-1620
· Rob Ritchie
@ (540) 439-3613
· Herman
Harke @ (540) 898-6753
· Jeff Walker
@ (540) 399-1834