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Pretty much everything is available to us here, most popular full size rimfire choice is to get a Rim-X with either a PROOF Prefit or have a barrel spun up by your favourite rifle builder and drop it into a chassis/stock that suits your purpose. 

3 hours ago, ashcroft said:

Thanks peeps

Did anyone opt for the spigot to push the bipod further forward or do you find them fine of the standard stock

Yes I had the ARCA spigot on mine, it helped push more weight further forwards.

I put about 7k rounds of 6.5 creed through rifles in a bravo back in 2019.

Didn’t like the small pistol grip or having to remove the cheek piece to get the bolt out. The recoil lug also floated on the Howa inlet which always made me nervous. The lack of simple options to increase the weight or add simple things like an ARCA rail was annoying as well.

if you’re looking at a bravo also consider an MDT XRS, they look similar only they’re easier to live with.

1 hour ago, No i deer said:

What was the velocity showing on the box of the eley match

That’s a good question, I’ll have to check once I’m back home.

8 hours ago, 1066 said:

What I find is a little disappointing is that, what is normally thought of as a fairly respectable match quality grade of ammunition, there is a spread of 30 fps.. That's around  3%.
If your centrefire match grade ammunition had the same 3% spread we are looking at around 90fps, not something I would be particularly pleased with.

Rimfire ammo is usually poor over the chrono as it doesn’t really matter much when shooting for group close range. The Eley was only a small sample of 25rd as well. My current lot of SK Long Range has been the exception and the consistency over the chrono translates to good vertical further out.

I tried some Eley match through my Rim-X midweek whilst visiting a tunnel range. Top group is 10 at 100m, middle is 10 at 50m and bottom was the last 5 shots in the mag at 50m. It shows some promise, though I expect it would improve with the tuner. I did notice the lighter coloured lead bullets makes it easy to watch them in flight.

27 minutes ago, No i deer said:

Here's my attempt at a 50yds 5 shot group again with the latest lot of eley match..

Prone bipod and been bag across the fields.

There was a a breeze..

Just couldnt get it to shoot better..

It's shot that same lot better a few weeks ago.

Is there much of a temp difference between the two session? 

Did you chamfer the mouths? That has  marked impact on seating consistency in my experience.

I’m running through a batch of virgin BR brass currently, mandrel and a chamfer is all it’s getting before loading. So far the results have been excellent.

Looking good! That new barrel looks to be working well. 

Can confirm the Garmin is very easy to use and even captures Airgun pellets reliably.

Bargain for someone 😊

How much cant do you need? 20, 30, 40 and 50MOA rails are readily available for the 457.

1 hour ago, Adamdavi3s said:

Thanks! I think I originally let the Vudoo Facebook groups get to me “1/2 INCH OR DEATH”  actually to make the whole point of the thread

an inch at 100 without trying too hard and £7 ammo is more than adequate

Outdoors down at Budleigh, lovely weather just a slight breeze 👍

Loved visiting Budleigh, it’s a great range. Nice one dude, conditions were great yesterday.

SK Match and LRM has been a great performer in our rifles over the past few years. I’d love to try some Midas or Tenex, however the performance I get consistently makes me reluctant to change anything.

The only person you need to be better than is your own last performance, keep tracking it and enjoy the process.

Looking good dude, was that indoors or outdoors?

I helped Dad zero his NV earlier this evening, as I’d cleaned the chamber and swapped chassis on my 22 after the worlds. I wanted to get some rounds down it before this weekend’s match.

The group is 10 shots at 100y, shot as quickly as I could run the bolt. The first shot went left and after watching that one in, I held 0.2 right. It usually takes 20-30 shots to settle in after a chamber cleaning and I expected to have to adjust the tuner following the chassis swap, but it looks like conditions were pretty good!

13 hours ago, Adamdavi3s said:

That’s just a quick 5, 5th one just disappeared into the middle without touching the sides, previous experience dictates the next 5 probably would have as well as long as I did my part

 

We're always the weakest link! Are you coming to any of the upcoming 22 matches? There's a few more at Pro Shoot and I believe a couple more due at Zero One.

I'm keen to see what kind of 200m consistency I can get on paper with mine over winter as a side project.

12 hours ago, Adamdavi3s said:

Taking this as an average group from the Vudoo 

50y 

SK LRM 

18c 

Tuner removed at the moment. 

Was a quick group after zeroing the Althlon ETR on here (getting rid of the Stryker 5-50) as fancy some PRL type shooting with it 

 

Nice Adam, is that a 5 or 10 shot group?

Final bit of data confirmation yesterday before heading to the 22 precision rifle world champs. 10 shots at 200m, looking at vertical dispersion and it proves that the data from the Kestrel is good. Shame about the one that went wide right making it up to just over 3.5”.

Either way I’m interested enough to see what the rimmies will do on paper later in the year.

1 hour ago, jcampbellsmith said:

Ryan

Thanks, I look forward to seeing the 2024 schedule in January.

Best regards

John

Look forward to shooting with you again John, I'm sure they'll be released ASAP. I'm looking forward to another stacked competition year in 2024.

2 hours ago, jcampbellsmith said:

I note that you haven't posted a link to the website in your reply. Also, many shooters don't go anywhere near social media. This branch of shooting sports is not doing enough to get more folk involved. 

Regards 

JCS 

You're correct, I didn't include the website link as I was doing other things whilst replying. Quite the contrary to getting people involved as the numbers seem to be increasing each time out and the national leader board numbers keep growing. Like most things shooting it just takes a quick google, or making contact with the clubs/organisations actively putting on events, it's in everyones best interest to increase participation numbers.

The PRS UK website has all of the dates on and here's a link to it. 

https://www.precisionrifleseries-uk.com/matches/

The GBPRA events link with the next few confirmed rimfire and centrefire matches on can be found here

https://www.gbpra.co.uk/uk-precision-rifle/gbpra-events/

I dare say more events will be added here as the organising clubs inform the GBPRA of their dates.

18 minutes ago, jcampbellsmith said:

One odd thing about PRS is that none of the organisations are capable of sitting down in December and agreeing a schedule for the following year. Most disciplines that I shoot work out their programme up to a year in advance. Publicising a shoot a week or 10 days before it's happening means that many folk can't attend because of prior commitments. 

More folk would participate if it was better publicised.

Regards 

JCS 

Last year it was November the PRS UK calendar was announced on social media and put on the website, which made planning our year of fullbore competitions simple.  

2 hours ago, Roy W said:

So I have been looking into this precision rifle shooting, toying with the idea of giving it a go.

From what I can see there is the Precision Rifle Series UK, GB Precision Rifle Assoc, and the UK Rifle Series and possibly others.

Can anyone explain the difference between them?

Thanks in advance

 

Similar things

PRS UK matches count towards the Precision Rifle Series UK leader board and finale - The top 5 overall get spots at the PRS finale in the US. PRS UK matches also feed into the GBPRA National leader board, from here the top shooters per category earn their place on the British team to shoot in the IPRF (International Precision Rifle Federation World Championships).

The GBPRA exists to develop Precision Rifle Shooting in the UK and send a British team to the IPRF world champs, both centrefire and rimfire.

Best thing to do is jump in to a match and get stuck in, there's every chance we'll see more PRS matches at Bisley, held over winter and organised by the NRA so there'll be more options to ring steels!

Great shooting Adam.

6GT is so similar to a 6x47 my American buddy uses the same charge weight and doesn’t adjust his seating die between the two. 
 

If you want to have the most for the least recoil then a BR based cartridge is where it’s at. Brass is relatively simple to get and to form into improved versions. Feeding is no problem with the correct mags and a decent chassis with an adjustable mag catch.

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