Jon Coppenbarger
Member
I really do not care how or why someone shoots either from a bench or standing on their head but the ONLY time I ever use a bench is when I first put a scope on a new rifle and thats only once every couple of years and I suck at shooting off a bench just ask steve smith. now I spend a few minutes every month down at the range and 99% of the folks I see are shooting off a bench with a rifle and I do not care.
LABGRADE: we are both in colorado and you are welcome to come and shoot with us anytime you would like as there are a few highpower matches up in your area of the woods, a nice match every month till nov. in boulder and one in ault also.
ault is a little ways for me to go but I try to make the boulder match every month.
we do not shoot off of benches or bags but laying on a matt or on the ground with just you and a sling for support and we also do it in rapid prone stages and rapid sitting stages and even off hand with out any support or sling.
its fun and when I am working on loads I do it from the positions like prone on the ground as when I pull the trigger I know where it goes.
also we only use open sights and I use a ar15 also. those matches are only 200 yards but when the weather gets a little better its off the bailey or byers for matches out to 600 yards and then we always have camp perry every year also.
now I only shot 198-9x on the slow prone target last week at 200 yards in a match and finished 3rd as the two guys next to me shot a perfect 200 and all three of us were using ar15's with open sights laying on a matt on the ground in the cold and wind.
8 of the 9 x's I shot were with in the size of a quarter with a 20" ar15.
oh and I think I might have a ideal of why I do not use a bench for my loads and practice because it would not of let me win the colorado state prone championship at ault last sept. as I did with the same ar15. I was the first one to win it with a ar15 against all the match rifles that were there. it was 40 rounds of slow prone on the slow prone target and 40 rounds of rapid prone on the rapid prone target. my score and I made a few bad shots but still had a 786-28x for the day out of a possible 800.
I also do not think the two elk I dropped 20 yards apart back in oct. cared if I was shooting from a bench or not.
let folks shoot what they want as it does not matter but please do not tell me that in order to be good I have to check my loads from a bench or practice that way and if you do not believe me come on out and watch and I will even loan you a rifle and the ammo to try it your self at a match.
jon in colorado springs.
LABGRADE: we are both in colorado and you are welcome to come and shoot with us anytime you would like as there are a few highpower matches up in your area of the woods, a nice match every month till nov. in boulder and one in ault also.
ault is a little ways for me to go but I try to make the boulder match every month.
we do not shoot off of benches or bags but laying on a matt or on the ground with just you and a sling for support and we also do it in rapid prone stages and rapid sitting stages and even off hand with out any support or sling.
its fun and when I am working on loads I do it from the positions like prone on the ground as when I pull the trigger I know where it goes.
also we only use open sights and I use a ar15 also. those matches are only 200 yards but when the weather gets a little better its off the bailey or byers for matches out to 600 yards and then we always have camp perry every year also.
now I only shot 198-9x on the slow prone target last week at 200 yards in a match and finished 3rd as the two guys next to me shot a perfect 200 and all three of us were using ar15's with open sights laying on a matt on the ground in the cold and wind.
8 of the 9 x's I shot were with in the size of a quarter with a 20" ar15.
oh and I think I might have a ideal of why I do not use a bench for my loads and practice because it would not of let me win the colorado state prone championship at ault last sept. as I did with the same ar15. I was the first one to win it with a ar15 against all the match rifles that were there. it was 40 rounds of slow prone on the slow prone target and 40 rounds of rapid prone on the rapid prone target. my score and I made a few bad shots but still had a 786-28x for the day out of a possible 800.
I also do not think the two elk I dropped 20 yards apart back in oct. cared if I was shooting from a bench or not.
let folks shoot what they want as it does not matter but please do not tell me that in order to be good I have to check my loads from a bench or practice that way and if you do not believe me come on out and watch and I will even loan you a rifle and the ammo to try it your self at a match.
jon in colorado springs.