butchlambert
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Stuart Elliott shooting his rimfire at 500 meters. Stuart is a long time Aussie friend and owns BRT Shooters Supply with his wonderful Wife Annie. The are both HOF shooters in multiple disciplines.
Things to do on Australia Day
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Stuart Elliott shooting his rimfire at 500 meters. Stuart is a long time Aussie friend and owns BRT Shooters Supply with his wonderful Wife Annie. The are both HOF shooters in multiple disciplines.
butchlambert
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Low velocity ammo and not even a competition rifle.
bobm
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OK, Butch. You opened this one up to some discussion.
Two decades ago I pulled my Kimber 82 SVT with Shilen barrel out of the stock. I mounted it to a cobbled together solid metal table rest with feet elevation adjustment and able to be c-clamped to our concrete bench rest tables. On a very calm early evening in summer, I was able to dial in shots and drop them into the 18"dia. 500 meter club steel with astounding regularity. You could even see the beginnings of a good percentage forming a 5-6 inch group after 50-60 shots. None missed the target. A few hit the outer edges in all directions.
Forgot to mention I was viewing the steel with my Kowa spotting scope.
The only ammo I had for this little experiment was SK standard plus. I never repeated this after that evening.
Today we have PRS rimfire shooters doing this prone from bipods.
Two decades ago I pulled my Kimber 82 SVT with Shilen barrel out of the stock. I mounted it to a cobbled together solid metal table rest with feet elevation adjustment and able to be c-clamped to our concrete bench rest tables. On a very calm early evening in summer, I was able to dial in shots and drop them into the 18"dia. 500 meter club steel with astounding regularity. You could even see the beginnings of a good percentage forming a 5-6 inch group after 50-60 shots. None missed the target. A few hit the outer edges in all directions.
Forgot to mention I was viewing the steel with my Kowa spotting scope.
The only ammo I had for this little experiment was SK standard plus. I never repeated this after that evening.
Today we have PRS rimfire shooters doing this prone from bipods.
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Kittitas George
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If it's Australia Day we should at least listen to Slim Dusty on Youtube sing "A Pub With No Beer". Then the Seekers singing "We Are Australians". Both wonderful songs. g'day!!
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