Williamsport 2018 1,000 Yard Bench Rest School

[rkittine]

Well, the school is over. I think everyone had a great time.

I failed the course again, so I guess I will have to repeat it in 2019 for the 4th time!

Thanks to all who made this happen.

P.S. - That's me, back row above the second R in Sierra in the Black shirt with the white hair and sun glasses.

Bob

 

[dogdude]

Bob, who was your mentor? Rifle? Chambered for?

 

[Terry]

What was the small group of the class?

 

[rkittine]

The winning Small Group was a little under 4". 3.8 something I believe.

I shot with Andy Murtagh and we were shooting 142 Sierra's in a 6.5x57 Improved. Bat Action I believe, but not sure of what barrel. 1:8.5 twist though.

Andy worked with me (second year doing so) as well as Al and his wife. Al won best group in his relay, I won best in mine and Al had the high score overall at 49.

Here we are with Andy's rifle.

The lower target is misleading. Andy wanted us to get a lot of trigger time, so Saturday we loaded up a bunch of rounds and just went and shot, 160 rounds without the rig seeing a cleaning rod. With no pit crew on Saturday we posted targets with the center bullseye was used for one shooter and I shot offset to the right and Al's wife shot offset to the left side. This is why the shots are not showing near a target center. This is 9 shots in 4.375 max spread out of 10 shots, but the 10th was about 5 more inches higher than the highest of the 9 and ruined the group.

 

[BoydAllen]

57 or 47?

 

[rkittine]

57 - A real odd ball. That I offered to buy on the spot.

 

[Joe Salt]

Bob it was nice seeing you again! As long as you had fun and picked up some secrets along the way, I'm sure Andy told you some.

Joe Salt

 

[rkittine]

Great seeing you too Joe. Look forward to seeing you again soon.

 

[Attrum]

Bob,

Thanks for the kind words and the breakdown of my rig. It's a 6.5x57 Improved with a million miles on it. Despite having the road wear it shot great. It's a BAT B RBLPRE on a McMillan MBR.

I'm so glad you enjoyed the weekend and thank you for posting the pics.

Kindest regards,

Andy