The Gun Pimp

Yes it would be safe - but it won't get any better. You could try to clean it up with a bit of light stoning.

I hate to see galled lugs. Bolt grease usually prevents it but grit could be the cause. Usually though if you have greased the lugs but a bit of grit gets in there, the shooter would feel it right away before it did so much damage.

Yeah - me too - until we got electronic targets!

Benchrest is hard on barrels. A half MOA 5-shot group - at 600 yards - is the starting point for a competitive BR gun.

If you use it for competitive benchrest - i.e 5 rounds fired in 15 to 20 seconds - perhaps 1200 rounds before accuracy starts to tail off. But, we shoot long-range benchrest every month (about 30 rounds needed) so, with testing, about 400 rounds per year - the barrel will give you about three years competitive shooting.

Nick - copy Geek above - generally most 6BR shooters with a c.30 inch barrel will be looking for 2950fps with a 105gn bullet. If you want to increase your muzzle velocity - stop mollying your bullets! Having said that - chase accuracy not velocity - though for 1000 yard benchrest it's handy to have both!

Diggle Club has seven of its own Shotmarker targets but the GBFCA League uses their own Silver Mountain.

Is this the 'mils' version?

OMG - I suppose somebody had to do it!

Best wishes with your new venture Andy - Vince

Email me John - targetshooteronline@icloud.com

Actually there is - the guy in the pic is Benjamin Gineste who won the French KIng of One Mile last month using the 33XC. The guy who built his rifle also does the ammo cases - Stuart Anselm of GS Precision. I've seen one 'in the flesh' - you won't be dissappointed.

I think it's only accessible by GBFCA members.

You might like to have a look at www.ukbr22.org.uk Amongst other stuff they run an indoor postal league for air and rimfire.

Good on yer Kevin - hope to see it at Diggle next year!

Might be interesting to see what the teams were using at the French ELR 1 mile shoot a few days ago. Personally I'd sooner have the option of 50x and not use it that be struggling with 25x and wish I had more. I shoot 1000 yard F Class and Benchrest comps frequently and use 35 - 40x most of the time.

Yeh, I built one - after seeing a left-hand shooter with a right-hand rifle blitz our steel-plate speed comp. If you shoot off a bi-pod exclusively definitely the way to go - until you come to sell it! Hard to convince RH shooters and not many lefties.......

Not the 33XC by any chance John? Just had a similar experience - 30 odd years without a stuck case........

Which scope is it in the S111 range? If I remember, the 8-32 has about 70MOA adjustment - but of course you would lose half of this on mounting on a 'zero' MOA rail but, you have a 20MOA rail so I would expect around 55MOA adjustment available. Assuming you are running your 6.5 Swede at reasonable velocity - then around 30MOA should take you from 100 to 1000 yards. Something is amiss. Yes, a set of Burris Signature rings would solve the problem - but there shouldn't be a problem - unless maybe you are running a fixed power 36x scope with one-inch tube?

Marco - I'm a bit tempted - do you every get up to Diggle? I'd prefer to have a look at it. PM me on targetshooteronline@icloud.com

I think it's brilliant if it works and with a low recoiling rifle it shouldn't be an issue. Hopefully we'll find out on the 9th August.

Just emailed you Lee. Vince

Serious comp shooters will always use the very best components - you can never take that shot again! If you are already loading match quality 6BR then you will be using Lapua or Norma brass. Lapua do a 223 Match case - that would be my starting point. However, you might like to read this - it did throw up the odd surprise: http://www.targetshooter.co.uk/?p=301

I would say that almost every competitive 6PPC benchrest shooter on the planet is using something between 28.5 and 29.5 grains of Vit 133 behind a 66 - 68gn FB bullet. It just works.

I would agree - go for the 6BR BUT - re the 6PPC - once you've done with the case-forming, neck-turning etc if you use a 1 in 14 twist barrel and FB bullets in the 68gn range and Vit 133 powder it's probably one of the easiest cartridges to tune. You will struggle to shoot 5-shot groups bigger than a half MOA at 100 yards - that's why it's ruled the benchrest competition circuit for decades and holds all the accuracy records out to 300 yds. However if you're not shooting competitive benchrest and you want a little 'six' - stick with the 6BR - the everyman's version. It still holds the UK record for a 5-shot group at 1000 yards.