Precision Rifle Shooting. Short introduction to Bench Rest shooting. Shooting Bench Rest rifle at 100 to 200 meters. Precision target shooting for smallest groups. Gaston Cantens . Bench Rest Rifles are the ultimate in accuracy and setting the standard in firearms industry and accuracy. plastic surgery . limousines . Here Birgir Runar Saemundsson of BRS Custom Rifles shoots a small group recorded on TV camera. Website: www.rifflar.com
Bench Rest Rifle Target Shooting Introduction.
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true hey
me to. im 25 and still a bit new to it all. getting my own .22 soon. but hey, we all start somewhere…
and its fun right, so who cares hey
hehe
Not much skill involved in that. just cooking up new recipes to try i guess.
@wehrmachtsniper1
you’re comparing apples with pears.
precision rifle shooting and BR are two totally different worlds. and each has its own difficulties.
I respect the BR-shooters also like they respect the precision-shooters.
We all have the same interests and the same hobbies: rifles, weapon technologies and so on.
and we all want the same:
to reach the maximum out of our setup.
I’m using BR-targets to train my skills in precision shooting at 50 and 100 meters with rimfire target rifle.
My rifle is a Suhl M-150 with 10-50×60 scope and swivel bipod.
Shoting from the prone position w/o buttstock support. Only the non shoting hand is allowed to support the buttstock. That’s military style
The smallest groups i’m reaching constantly are measuring about 15 mm (outer circle) with 10 shots of competition class ammunition.
lmao, i like your trigger control =)
as a target shooter ive always thought that u have to admit the only skill in this benchrest shooting is observing ur windages, trajectories and weather effectsetc but that can all be calculated, then theres finding an accurate enough round, however theres no human skill required if u think about it, once calculations are made only the trigger has to be touched.
@mirkthirteen Yes all these things you mention “Can” be calculated, right.
“Finding” an accurate round is not as you describe, we constantly work at making the most accurate “round” with precision work in turning necks and trimming, weighing cartridge cases into selected lots, testing different quality bullets and seating depths, selecting right powder with correct burning rate, and choosing correct primer etc . Human skill? The best BR shooters make the least human mistakes, believe me !
@birgrunar yer soz i was meant to say alot would go into the fine tuning of creating your own rounds etc, so fair enough its kind of asking for a completely different kind of skill lol, just saying out in the field they aint gonna go so well, since there gonna need arms to support themselves
But yer fair enough i see where the workings go into it, lol it just feels so weird in comparison with them going damn i didnt get 10.10, lol and theyre connected to a bench
@birgrunar Oh of course sorry i meant to say u would have to develop ur own loads to fine tune them to perfection, etc no u wouldnt be using factory loads, now i understand completely that there are factors into correcting everything plus yes weighin cases etc, just arr lol theres no real human skill, finding the right stuff to make it accurate, fine but wheres the challenge of perfecting yourself?
@mirkthirteen I consider it a human skill, reading the wind, evaluating mirage, correct setup of rifle for every shot, correct trigger squeeze.
Note this Bench Rest shooting in competition is a special sport, aimed at getting highest precision out of gun and man, meaning you have to be extremely consistent to get good groups and aggregates in competition when you have only 7 mins for finishing your 5 shot group. BR competition is all about perfection in rifle and man.
@birgrunar Fair enough its a different art form, opposed to what the other shooting disciplines are like. Thanks, gave me a better insight, the aims are quite different then.
It would seem to me that once you are sure of the weapon and ammo by having touching groups then you would do it “freehand” and try to perfect yourself to match the weapon’s ability. I have shot in competition before and found that once I was sure that it was me at fault, then being humbled I learned to compete against my weapon. It’s then all about honing your human skills to incorporate yourself with the weapon. It’s breathing, trigger pull, sight picture, heart rate and concentration.
@wehrmachtsniper1 Wrong.
@mirkthirteen Hello. There are two benches involved in this sport: the shooting bench and the loading bench. I pursue this sport and may I say that a formidable skill set is required to study the rifle completely and to build up the proper round using the right case and right bullet. Then there’s shooting skill on the bench applying knowledge of wind, bullet trajectory, spin drift. Shooting the round isn’t the end of it. The expended case is then examined for signs of overpressure.
@sandrifter Right !
Nothing is more fun than seeing your boss out on the range trying to sight in his new expensive baby with WalMart ammo, bench rested (holes all over the paper) and you offer some hand loads to use and he says I don’t want to blow my gun up. After assuming responsibility for his weapon he reluctantly says I can shoot it in his gun. I shot a touching cloverleaf in the upper right corner of his target after aiming at the bull, picked up my brass and walked away.
You had to have been there
Sweet.
People can talk s*** on benchrest shooters all they want. If it weren’t for the BR shooters most of the innovations in rifle accuracy wouldn’t be here today. You probably wouldn’t even know what a pillar and glass bedded action or a carbon fiber stock were if it weren’t for benchrest. Not to mention so many others. So lay off!
@MrSurgicalPrecision True !
For a video titled introduction it sure didn’t do much but show a guy pulling a trigger and a target getting holes shot into it.
Anybody can shoot like this at 15 yards..
@MrSurgicalPrecision
I agree. Not my cup of tea, but I do know where it all started.
Some day I will be able to afford a rifle that groups that well. Then all I have to do is learn to use it to the optimum.
@sandrifter I love when I put my AR-15 service rifle on one sandbag on the bench next to guys with high power scopes and weighted sleds and beat them outright usually with .75-1 moa versus their 2 moa.