F-Class vs Benchrest. Sorry for my ignorance up front!

[Retired Grunt]

I guess no one wants to touch my 6 ARC question. LOL

Not sure for F Class, I have seen it mostly online PRS Style shooting. The six's I see locally are the 6 Dasher, and 6 BR and 1 6mm Creedmoor.

 

[Boilermaker]

I guess no one wants to touch my 6 ARC question. LOL

I know some guys in our club matches are beginning to play with the 6mm ARC for short range Benchrest. I think it is an excellent candidate for that discipline. It would be comparable to a ppc with a little more case capacity. I don’t think it would be a big enough cartridge to be competitive much past 300 yds, but I don’t have any experience with it myself.

 

[AndyTaber]

There were a few of us at our club that didn’t relish the idea of shooting prone. We were already shooting two matches a month at 300 yards on the f-class target, from a bench. When we started shooting a 600 yard match I bought some Benchrest target faces and for one summer we tried this. None of us cared for the course of fire and switched to shooting an f-bench match. More to our liking but still didn’t get a huge turnout. ( we were shooting two 20 round matches).
i then collaborated with the Highpower/f-class group and we added two lanes with benches to their scheduled matches. This is starting to grow. We have a third bench ready should we need it.
I think with the number of people with health, back and neck issues, shooting from a bench is the way to go. I don’t know why it is taking so long for the NRA to approve f-bench to the line up.
Anything we can do to make shooting more handicap accessible is a good thing.

 

[1bamashooter]

I shoot both BR and F class with the same Dasher here is my first target from our 1000yd match yesterday

 

[JFrank]

I guess no one wants to touch my 6 ARC question. LOL

I cant speak for the F class but 600 Bench rest usually has a tactical class that may have fellas with that caliber. I would start with a .473 (308) bolt face , a receiver Bat , Borden, Panda, or Defiance and a good stock with a 3 inch forearm from there you can easily switch barrels if you want to experience a different caliber or disciples.

 

[Mike F H]

There were a few of us at our club that didn’t relish the idea of shooting prone. We were already shooting two matches a month at 300 yards on the f-class target, from a bench. When we started shooting a 600 yard match I bought some Benchrest target faces and for one summer we tried this. None of us cared for the course of fire and switched to shooting an f-bench match. More to our liking but still didn’t get a huge turnout. ( we were shooting two 20 round matches).
i then collaborated with the Highpower/f-class group and we added two lanes with benches to their scheduled matches. This is starting to grow. We have a third bench ready should we need it.
I think with the number of people with health, back and neck issues, shooting from a bench is the way to go. I don’t know why it is taking so long for the NRA to approve f-bench to the line up.
Anything we can do to make shooting more handicap accessible is a good thing.

In Australia there are plenty of older shooters that wouldn’t be shooting if they didn’t have benches allowed.Mostly the benches are are a aluminium work platform with a plywood top.

 

[M99]

F class is prone (like High Power) and if that is what makes it difficult then the obvious choice is benchrest

AND having to shoot 3 x 20 shot strings in F-Class while the conditions are changing all day. Bench rest are very short strings in a single condition. Far fewer precision rounds of ammo required for Bench Rest as well.

 

[Falfan2017]

I shoot both BR and F class with the same Dasher here is my first target from our 1000yd match yesterday
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That Reese Bottom? Or another range?

 

[1bamashooter]

That Reese Bottom? Or another range?

Yes sir RB

 

[Falfan2017]

Yes sir RB

Cool didn’t know they had a 1000 yard line.

 

[1bamashooter]

That Reese Bottom? Or another range?

Yes sir R

Cool didn’t know they had a 1000 yard line.

Oh yeah Mr Wynne has fixed us up that's about all we shoot now days

 

[JEFFPPC]

I guess no one wants to touch my 6 ARC question. LOL

I will answer. First I no longer shoot IBS. I do shoot lots of groundhog matches from 100 to 500 yds and some UBR style matches. I do shoot the PPC out to 500. First off, when I read about the introduction of the ARC I saw all the lists of companies that pledged to support it. I thought great, some one will make a heavy barrel 9 to 11 lb factory varmint rifle in it. I will buy one and shoot factory class with it. Well, no guns. Maybe eventually there will be a Ruger American or CZ but neither fill the bill, so first strike against it. As far as a custom gun, no place foe it. 6 ppc and the Br and all its variants, no need not really any reason. Strike two. It's a tough game, 2 strikes, your out.

 

[Bojo]

OP you are a 3.5 hour drive from Ridgway , Pa.
check out the VBR benchrest silhouette shooting. Its a blast.
once a month from May thru October
with one of those weekends being a 2 day shoot.
everything from 6br to 300 mags on the shooting line. My first gun was in 243win in a factory 9.25 twist.
it shot the 95vld’s good but they are low on steam at 1000 to knock over those coyotes. They fall in slow motion, and I’ve rocked a few without a knock over. Now I’m running a 6xc shooting 107 Sierra’s. 12 grains of weight makes a noteable difference.
Targets at 850 crows, 900 woodchucks ,950 bobcats,1000 coyotes.

You get 40 targets and 40 scoring shots.

 

[WyleWD]

I guess no one wants to touch my 6 ARC question. LOL

When (or if) the supply of components, including premium brass become more attainable I know of several shooters that are itching to try it. It will have a very lofty challenge to beat or compete the PPC's, 6 Grendels, and 6 Br on a wide scale basis in short range BR. JMHO. WD

 

[R33]

Oh, i should have mentioned....
You'll see a lot more 6mm class cartridges in BR. (Except for 30BR).
6BR, 6PPC, 6BRA, 6BRX.
For some reason other cartridges (6GT for example) are really shunned away from in BR.
And they'll be shooting the 105-110gr weight bullets. (110-125gr in the 30BR)

308, 284, 6.5mm, and others that are a staple of F-Class you won't see at short range BR.
Unless they have a Factory class at that match.
And Factory will mean factory barreled action. No aftermarket barrels.

Why is the 6GT shunnmanageable.
The ammo is now available over the counter. It is pretty simple to develop a consistent load using powders like Varget or H4350 and Bullets from Berger, Vapor Trail, Sierra, or Cbar. Barrel life is 2500 rounds if you keep it under 2950 fps. Recoil is very managable.

 

[std7mag]

Why is the 6GT shunnmanageable.
The ammo is now available over the counter. It is pretty simple to develop a consistent load using powders like Varget or H4350 and Bullets from Berger, Vapor Trail, Sierra, or Cbar. Barrel life is 2500 rounds if you keep it under 2950 fps. Recoil is very managable.

At the time that I posted it, it was still a fairly new cartridge.

I've been seeing it a bit more now, but BR shooters are into the proven.
Having them jump on a new cartridge doesn't just happen.
Let someone else prove it first.