Egg Shoot Rifle Classification

[Darryll]

The club that I belong to has a couple of center fire egg shoots a year. They only have two classes, one for factory rifles, and one for unlimited rifles. I don't think that that is enough, and we're having a heated discussion about this. In the factory class, your rifle can have an after market trigger, can be bedded, and blueprinted (trued), but it must have a factory stock and barrel. Everything else like a Remington 40X goes into the Unlimited class. They put the Savage Target rifles in the factory class, and they dominate that class, but they put the Savage F/TR rifles, and the old Winchester Model 70 target rifles in Unlimited because they say that they are hand built. I don't agree with either of those definitions and I'm wondering how everyone else defines their rifle classes for egg shoots. Please help me understand this. I think that I am going to stir up a hornets nest with this. Thanks in advance.
Darryll

 

[Crackerbacks]

My club does it the same exact way........ Not that everyone agrees

 

[ReedG]

All clubs struggle with this. At our egg shoots we have three classes: factory stock, modified "hot rod" and full custom.

FACTORY STOCK: Unmodified centerfire factory rifle, designed to be fired from the shoulder. Any power scope is allowed. No modifications are allowed to the action, barrel or stock. Replacement triggers allowed.

MODIFIED "HOT ROD": Centerfire varmint/target rifle with a custom-made barrel, or custom or modified action, or custom or modified stock. Unlimited scope power. No electronic or mechanically assisted triggers.

FULL CUSTOM: A custom-made centerfire rifle for benchrest shooting, or F-Class, etc. Any action, any barrel, any stock.

All rifles to be fired from sand bags or bipods, no one-piece rests. All competition at 200 yards with bona fide Vermont Grade A eggs, five shots at five eggs.

We consider these rules as minimal as we can make them and yet cover what most of us have for guns. The Coopers are always worth a discussion along with the 40X's but if original they shoot factory class. A Savage with full factory equipment shoots factory.

Good luck with your "discussion" ...

 

[CatShooter]

The rules should be reasonable in the sense that they should fit real life. The average "Factory" varmint shooter buys a rifle, beds it and replaces the trigger - all of these are within the abilities of the average shooter with a few light hand tools.

But the idea that you can blue-print an action and call it factory, boggles the mind, cuz once you have pulled the barrel and rebuilt the action, then the next step is to set the factory barrel back two turns and cut a new chamber, and then you are up in the ozone layer and shooting against the poor schnook that spent $600 on a 700 VLF and replaced the trigger. That does not make for a successful match structure.

Our local group has "factory" being bedding and replace the trigger. Semi-custom - that includes 40X's Coopers (etc) and other low production, high grade rifles. Them Custom (or unlimited).

Someone should be able to go to an egg shoot and find a level that he can shoot in, where the playing field will be close to level... or they won't come back.

 

[Lazydays]

they don't do that type of shooting around me, but have been following the various rule changes here and there thinking that someday we will. With the Savage rifles, the Long Range series have been banned from the factory class (why I can't see as they are a production rifle) along with the 40X series as well. The Savage custom shop PTA's I could see, but still don't understand why the others.
gary

 

[357Mag]

Darryll -

Howdy !

One of the premier Groundhog & egg shoots is the one(s) held at the Southfork Rifle Club; near Beaverdale, PA.

They have the rules pretty well refined, and it's a very successful match.

Check 'em out...... and, their "classes" at: southforkrifleclub.com


With regards,
357Mag

 

[Alex Wheeler]

Factory- bedding and trigger allowed.
Factory target rifles, savade target action, 40x, ext. bedding and trigger mods only
custom- ibs light gun
custom- ibs heavy gun
imo

 

[bpmoss1]

Egg shoot? That sounds fun, wish they held them here in so-cal. I've heard of a dynamite shoot, anybody know where? That would be worth traveling for . I can see the controversy of the rules.