Hi All,
I had no idea that the ARA even existed, found out about it doing a search for unrelated benchrest stuff on the net. I was awed to say the least when I saw the targets sheets. The individual targets are quite small, especially when you seem then naked eye from 50 yards (I can't). And the scoring is heavily weighted to the bullseye so near misses really bring down your score. I thought I had to try it, so I went to their site and downloaded a target.
I wasn't expecting much because of the size if the individual targets and also because I would be using my new 457 American from a bipod and a rear bag, obviously not a top of the line benchrest setup. I realize that this is a .22 LR game and I used a .22 magnum but figured that would be a disadvantage because the .22 WMR is not supposed to be as accurate as the .22 LR.
Didn't do too bad for my first time. Shot a 1775 out of a possible 2500. Not a competitive score but for my first time and setup, I'll take it
. It's a difficult discipline because you have to change your rifle's position for every shot - 25 of them to finish a round. After shooting I can see where you could go bad crazy with this kind of shooting! My kind of game.
First image is the size of the individual bulls - tiny. The bullseye is worth 100. If your shot is even half out of it then the score drops to 50, and so on. Tough business.
This is the whole target sheet. I shot this with CCI 30 grain V-MAX. Used that ammo because it shoots really well on this rifle and it is the ammo that my 50 yard zero was set for. Still had to tweak the zero for the day by changing my hold - you can see that it shot mostly low on the bull.
Best,
JAS
I had no idea that the ARA even existed, found out about it doing a search for unrelated benchrest stuff on the net. I was awed to say the least when I saw the targets sheets. The individual targets are quite small, especially when you seem then naked eye from 50 yards (I can't). And the scoring is heavily weighted to the bullseye so near misses really bring down your score. I thought I had to try it, so I went to their site and downloaded a target.
I wasn't expecting much because of the size if the individual targets and also because I would be using my new 457 American from a bipod and a rear bag, obviously not a top of the line benchrest setup. I realize that this is a .22 LR game and I used a .22 magnum but figured that would be a disadvantage because the .22 WMR is not supposed to be as accurate as the .22 LR.
Didn't do too bad for my first time. Shot a 1775 out of a possible 2500. Not a competitive score but for my first time and setup, I'll take it
. It's a difficult discipline because you have to change your rifle's position for every shot - 25 of them to finish a round. After shooting I can see where you could go bad crazy with this kind of shooting! My kind of game.First image is the size of the individual bulls - tiny. The bullseye is worth 100. If your shot is even half out of it then the score drops to 50, and so on. Tough business.
This is the whole target sheet. I shot this with CCI 30 grain V-MAX. Used that ammo because it shoots really well on this rifle and it is the ammo that my 50 yard zero was set for. Still had to tweak the zero for the day by changing my hold - you can see that it shot mostly low on the bull.
Best,
JAS
