Awesome F-Class Score!

[effendude]

Hello F-Classers,
I've run an F-Class league at the Elk River Sportsman's Club in Elk River, MN for the past two years. The program has brought out many new shooters and helped hone the skills of the experienced shooters. Last night, Aug. 10th, we had great conditions: Rain had moved through, little to no wind, and good light. Forum member and MN Champ Benjamin Winget,benjamin199)shot a clean score of 200-16X at 600 yards. I run the line overseeing the shooters, but I was drawn to my spotting scope as I realized how great Ben was shooting. What a pleasure to watch! Here are the stats on Ben's 284 Win. rifle, as seen on page 9 of the pride and joy blog:
BAT 3 lug long action
Broughton 30' 9 twist 5C barrel
Master Class rosewood lam. F-class stock
Jewel trigger
NF 12-42 BR scope

Ben was shooting Lapua brass, 175 Sierra bullets pushed by Re-17. I don't know which primers. Great shooting Ben!

 

[gunnut606]

What is the official format and target size for F-class match, or is there one?

Because at the local club's so call F-class match, we only have to 300 yards and the targets have a 2' X-ring, and 3' 10-ring, and we shoot 60 shots in 1 hr. plus 5 sighters.

 

[benjamin199]

Thanks for the kind words.
The conditions were perfect and the rifle was shooting very well.
My load is:
175gr matchking seated .010 off the lands
CCI BR-2 primer
50.2gr of RL-17
lapua Brass,6.5-284 necked up to 7mm)
We were shooting the mid range 600yd target with the Fclass center. X-ring 1/2 MOA, 10 ring 1MOA.
Unlimited sighters and 20 shots for record in 22 mins.

 

[HPMike800]

The link to the Highpower f-class rules

http://www.nrahq.org/compete/RuleBooks/HPR/hpr-w22.pdf

 

[o2fish]

Benjamin

What Velocities are you getting with your load of R17 ?

Thanks

 

[benjamin199]

I am getting around 2840fps.

 

[Mark Walker in TX]

Great shooting!!!!

 

[Taildrag15X]

gunnut606 wrote 'What is the official format and target size for F-class match, or is there one?

Because at the local club's so call F-class match, we only have to 300 yards and the targets have a 2' X-ring, and 3' 10-ring, and we shoot 60 shots in 1 hr. plus 5 sighters.'

The NRA Offical 300 yard Target has a 1.4' X Ring, the Targets are .5 moa for 300 yds. through 1000 yards, F-Class is under High Power Rules found here: http://www.nrahq.org/compete/RuleBooks/HPR/hpr-index.pdf

A New Club record has been set at Peru Rod & Gun the last 2 months by Greg Shangraw, now it stands as 450-30X, shot with 5 sighters and then in 3 strings of 15, shoot and paste, that's without pits and no sighters after the 1st string.

Now for the reason I read this...

GREAT SHOOTING benjamin199!

What is total Agg. for the match?

 

[Travelor]

One of the fellow CLub members, Falconpilot, and I shot a 600 yard F-Class Match a couple of months ago at Memphis Tennessee. The targets were the offical NRA 600 yard F-Class targets with a 3' X ring.

I shot a Remington actioned 6mmBR and my score was a 597-30x - Falconpilot beat me! He shot a 597-33X. His gun is a BAT actioned 6mm Dasher. His first relay score was a 200-17X IIRC. What a pleasure it was to shoot with him and be competitive.

George Toney

 

[falconpilot]

George,

Give me a call..I've changed phones and lost your number..I want to visit with you about the 284 Shehane..Got my up and running...Found the load today..4 witnessed back to back groups under 5' at 1000 yards. This thing hammers!!!pushing the 180 Bergers at 2950fps, but the 180VLD's take a quite a bit of work finding the sweet spot..when you do, Damn this thing shoots

Jim

 

[canderson]

Glad to here that, I didn't know it could get much better than the dasher.

 

[falconpilot]

I don't think the Dasher can be beat, espically at 600 yards or less. It's just so accurate, and easy to shoot. To date, I've only shoot 2 '8' on the new 1000 yard F-Class target and I've shoot quite a few contest. I do feel that at several 1000 yard F-Class shoots that I gave up a few points,the difference between 1st and 2nd!) with the Dasher due to switch/gusty winds.

The 284 Shehane is pushing the 180 vld along with easily at 2950fps without any pressure signs. Quickload shows the winddrift in a 10 mph wind to be about 48 inches or so for the 284, whiles its about 90'on so for the 108 BT traveling at 3000fps...So, basically, I'm increasing my margin or error for wind reading by double...I need all the help I can get

 

[js223]

falconpilot, with a hammer like that, you must be really looking forward to Butner. Is this the yellow gun with a barrel swap, or did you build another?

On the wind drift comparison, I ran them with the Litz BCs and it looks like the 6mm/108@3000 would have 21' more deflection in that 10mph crosswind at 1000yds than the 7mm/180@2950. Still pretty noticeable, but not so extreme as Quickload would suggest.

 

[falconpilot]

We are always learning...took the gun out to the TN F-Class Championship...got my butt spanked Gun was shooting all over the target, with alot of unexplained/unexpected vertical...nothing that could be patterned, just ramdom hits, all over....Got home and had to leave out on a trip for work...my buddy went down and shot the gun yesterday, off his rest and bag, from the ground, and shot several under 6' groups...So, I'm assuming that its my table manners/rest setup that was causing me the grief over the weekend...Really thinking about screwing the Dasher barrel back on and shooting it at the Nationals, then playing with this gun over the winter...I trust and know my Dasher...