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Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Outdoor May 9, 2018 The first outdoor match of the season is always a reminder that we are at the mercy of Ralph the Wind God, and he was not particularly kind. Some thought the best part of the day was the donuts brought to celebrate Tony’s...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Indoors April 25, 2018 A rather light turnout for the last match of the first half of the season. Several responsibilities kept folks away. Some of the folks who are normally at the top of the heap weren’t this match. Looking forward to...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Indoors April 11, 2018 We have seen a plethora of 250’s & 750’s the last 2 matches. Is there something in the water here? Congratulations to Boomer Aber on his 750. Boomer said it only took him 7 years to accomplish that. Bill Davis seems to...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Indoors March 28, 2018 Congratulations to Dick for an awesome aggregate of 1500-102X! He found the magic pellet! Bill is coming along well with his new rifle. The rest of us had a good time. Shooter Class Equipment Tar. 1 Tar. 2 Tar. 3...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Indoors March 21, 2018 Our second third Wednesday “make up” match went well. Ron is out of town on March 28. Bill was able to become more familiar with his new rifle. Frank & Chris brought out rifles from the back of the vault to play with...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Indoors March 14, 2018 We had a good crowd today even with two of our regulars being absent. Bill Davis had a good outing with his new RAW. Welcome to the world of HV, Bill. We had a close race for first place in Relay 1’s HV class with...

Standard twist Here are some notes I have gathered about airgun barrels from various sources on the net including comments from Dan Brown and Lothar Walther. Airgun Barrel Twist Rate & Specifications Dan Brown: ”I've never found any published info on airgun twist rates. I suspect it is not as...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Indoors February 28, 2018 Turnout was a bit light due to illness & travels. Hope everyone is back in two weeks. It was a rather strange competition as several of us shot very poorly in Relay 1 and improved substantially in Relay 2.Zero 250’s...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Indoors February 21, 2018 We had a reasonable turnout for our first third Wednesday match. Several of us were using it as a makeup for relays/matches we missed allowing us to post a full compliment of targets to the Scoreline...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Indoors February 14, 2018 We missed Tony & Tom as they were out due to the flu and recovering from surgery. Hope to see you both back in action soon. Bill continues to improve with a borrowed rifle. Damian has been hooked and it is great to...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Indoor January 24, 2018 It was an outstand match with 11 shooters. I can’t remember when that has happened. We were honored to have our traveling friend Jim Benson shoot with us and to have Damian McLean return. Congratulations to Bill Davis...

Scoring Plugs/Gauges The custom brass .177/.224 gauges endorsed by USARB are precision machined by Michael Aber, and are available for purchase from me upon request at cost of $15 each plus $5 for shipping. Contact me at email: michaelaber@xxxxxxx.com. These custom gauges have proven to be...

I hope this merger doesn't degrade the quality of R.A.W. products I'm a big R.A.W. fan... my favorite rifle for benchrest competition. Owning both Thomas and RAW rifles as well as Air Arms rifles for benchrest competition RAW products have always produced my best scores. I prefer the trigger...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Indoors January 10, 2018 Damian stopped by to say hello. It was great seeing him. Hopefully his rifle will be repaired & he’ll be back on the line soon. We had a visitor from Medford. We’ll see what his level of interest is...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Indoors December 27, 2017 Illness & injury decreased the number of competitors by one-third for the last match of the year. Hopefully, we’ll have everyone back in 2018. Mike (Boomer) Aber was the star of the show with two 250’s in LV...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Indoors December 13, 2017 The LV game is tightening up. Why did I tell Ron to try my pellets? Now the chase begins. Noticing the top scores in both relays in HV. Two very close competitors. Was hoping we’d see Oliver today. Hopefully...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Indoors November 22, 2017 It was good to have Chris back with us. The HV scores in relay 1 and 2 for first place were really close with only 2X separating the first place shooters. Hoping everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Indoors November 8, 2017 Our first indoor match produced 11 250’s. Not sure is that’s some kind of record or not! J Ron’s 750-60 may make the records program. We’ll see how it fairs when being certified. Good thing we moved indoors as...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Outdoors October 25, 2017 It was an interesting day with calm and fog at the beginning of the match changing to sunshine and changeable breezes as the day progressed. Jim Benson drove down from Washington State and did well with his...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Outdoors October 11, 2017 It was a wild and crazy day with light winds at the start followed by rain & dead calm then sun and winds. One would have thought the calm would have produced great scores but such was not the case. Most felt...