I learned about this match thru a shooting friend. Subsequent inquiries let me know it was to be a somewhat informal precision rimfire rifle match in Montgomergy County, KY. Classes included Sporter Rifle, Factory Target Rifle and Unlimited Rifle all at 50yds on a USBR target. Also there would be a 17hmr and 22WMR class fired on the same tgt at 100yds. They added an open sight class fired on a larger bull similar to the NRA A-23 bull again at 50yds. Each class fired from a bench off of sand bags or a machine rest. Great turn out for a first time match with about 30 shooters competing for honors of Top-Shot. A mixed bag of benchrest, tactical, hunters, and families with kids were all involved. Winds were at times challenging. Some really nice equipment including two silenced rifles and a really nice Cooper 22lr as well as a Hall custom benchrest rifle.
I competed in the 22lr factory target rifle class with my Remington 540XR. Beside me was a fellow with a Cooper BR rifle. Many clubs would have classed that as an unlimited rifle since it had a wide BR stock and match grade bbl. But it was allowed in the factory class since it was manufactured and not a customer ordered rig. Gray area, right? The Cooper turned out to be my #1 competition, but I shot well and scored 245 out of possible 250. I did not make a note of the X count nor did I keep the target but from memory, there were about 12 "X's". I won the class by 3 points. My buddy Bob got 2nd place in the sporter class also.
I also shot the 100yd match with my 17hmr, but gusting winds and heat mirage made high scores difficult. I scored a 95 and when asked if some of us wanted to shoot it again, I shot my Win mod 52 rifle in 22lr instead. It has a better scope than the 17 and this enabled a 115 score which was good enough for 3rd place. Maybe I should have shot the Remington?
Unless I missed one, my 245 was high score for the day, even over the Unlimited rifles. I will admit that I did not check this all that close but I know I out scored the Cooper shooter and the guy with the Hall custom BR rig. The others were not capable of scoring better due to equipment limitations. While a real high class BR match might have several shooters scoring 250 and needing X-count to be the tie breaker, this match was shot by local mere mortals using rifles that mostly did not cost thousands of dollars, and it was great fun with a good bunch of people. They are discussing how to make it better and I suggested adding both a 200yd tgt and including some reactive tgts such as steel or frangible tgts like clay birds. Over all, I give them two thumbs up for a fun, well organized match.
Irish
I competed in the 22lr factory target rifle class with my Remington 540XR. Beside me was a fellow with a Cooper BR rifle. Many clubs would have classed that as an unlimited rifle since it had a wide BR stock and match grade bbl. But it was allowed in the factory class since it was manufactured and not a customer ordered rig. Gray area, right? The Cooper turned out to be my #1 competition, but I shot well and scored 245 out of possible 250. I did not make a note of the X count nor did I keep the target but from memory, there were about 12 "X's". I won the class by 3 points. My buddy Bob got 2nd place in the sporter class also.
I also shot the 100yd match with my 17hmr, but gusting winds and heat mirage made high scores difficult. I scored a 95 and when asked if some of us wanted to shoot it again, I shot my Win mod 52 rifle in 22lr instead. It has a better scope than the 17 and this enabled a 115 score which was good enough for 3rd place. Maybe I should have shot the Remington?
Unless I missed one, my 245 was high score for the day, even over the Unlimited rifles. I will admit that I did not check this all that close but I know I out scored the Cooper shooter and the guy with the Hall custom BR rig. The others were not capable of scoring better due to equipment limitations. While a real high class BR match might have several shooters scoring 250 and needing X-count to be the tie breaker, this match was shot by local mere mortals using rifles that mostly did not cost thousands of dollars, and it was great fun with a good bunch of people. They are discussing how to make it better and I suggested adding both a 200yd tgt and including some reactive tgts such as steel or frangible tgts like clay birds. Over all, I give them two thumbs up for a fun, well organized match.
Irish
