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Benchrest pistol

  • 19-04-2009 12:29am
    #1
    Flippy Flynn
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    I can't find rules and regulations anywhere online regarding .22 benchrest pistol competitions. I know some clubs have held them here.

    Can anyone post their club's competition format if they have it handy.

    I mean a competition for common or garden .22 pistols, not the yokes with bipods and bolt actions...


    I know others use 200mm aiming mark at 25m, some things I'm not sure of:

    can you rest the barrel (on a sandbag etc.) or do you just support your normal grip on a bench?

    use both hands?

    inward or outward gauging on the scoring?

    limitation on magazine capacity?

    penalties for more than the allotted number of shots in a target?



    Help appreciated.:)


Comments

  • #2
    Flippy Flynn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭Flippy Flynn


    AchooBUMP!! 'scuse me.


  • #3
    It wasn't me!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    As far as I recall, a rough guide is that it's the same target as the ISSF standard pistol one (that's what Rathdrum seem to use anyway), and you don't rest the barrel, just your wrist. Not sure about whether using both hands is allowed. Mags are usually loaded with 5 shots, think that's the rule, and it'll be sixty shots. Since it's on electronic targets, and in groups of five, you won't fire too many shots. It's also inward guaged as per the target.

    I've never personally shot in one of these competitions, but that's my observation based on watching the competitions and reading announcements of them here before. I may be wrong, but it'll do as a rough guide.


  • #4
    Flippy Flynn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭Flippy Flynn


    Anyone shot in this type of comp, can they remember the format?


  • #5
    Kryten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 314 ✭✭Kryten


    Yes, 25 meters on the PL7 ISSF target. We gave 10 minutes for thirty rounds, benchrested. However only the wrist can be supported. You can use one or two hands.

    There was a sixty shot match last time in Rathdrum. This opened out the scores a little, as fatigue sets in.

    For more in depth info contact the NASRPC contacts. http://www.nasrpc.ie


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