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Congratulations to "Jerry Stiller" on his big 1st Place Win at the "Kettlefoot ARA Club Tournament" today. Hope he was using one of his new 2500X actions! Way to go Jerry! John

Congratulations to "Tony Medinger" for his 1st Place Win at the Stiller PSL match, and to his smith Todd Taylor. I know there were at least 20 competitors in the match. We normally get a play by play online ... what happened to the results list? The silence is deafening. John

Keith, thanks for the kind words. No rush to see the snow fall again this winter on the news. I want the guys to enjoy the long rimfire shooting season and the nice weather up north. Next project for me, is to build another 10 1/2 pound rifle, to replace my Suhl 150-1/Shilen Ratchet combo...

I know, the little sporter rifle has a different feel to it. I must have gotten the back boring dimensions in the dog knot right, either by accident or pure luck, because it is shooting much better than I ever expected it too. I was using a Farley Coaxial II front rest with 2 1/4" leather bag...

Thanks Tim. They have IR50 matches at Manatee Gun Club, near Sarasota, FL which is about 225 miles from my home in Miami. However, I'll have to wait for the snowbirds to head back down this winter. We have a USBR practice match this coming Wednesday, I plan to shoot the Sporter in the...

IR5050 Sporter complete For those who may be interested: I completed the build of my IR5050 Sporter over three months ago, but have only shot it occasionally since it doesn't qualify as a factory sporter in our club matches. The action is a XIII sporter, has a five shot magazine and the...

Nice, you should join us for the BIPM World Postals: http://www.benchpostal.com/index.html a bit of fun, scores from IR50/50 and RBA (check scoring ring sizes first) targets are acceptable. Brian Brian, I will have to look into shooting the World Postals. At present, I do not have any...

Today's (non sanctioned) USBR match For those who may be interested: Today was a regular club match at the Hollywood Rifle & Pistol Club, Dania Beach, FL. We use USBR targets in a three card aggregate (non-sanctioned) match with eleven shooters in attendance. For me, today would be a test of...

Broughton's are fine barrels Brian, I agree, Broughton's are fine barrels. A while back, I purchased a 40X which had a Benchmark 2 groove reverse tapered barrel. It was a decent shooting rifle, but I just didn't feel it was competitive enough, even at our local matches. After I acquired my...

Brian, Several months ago, Dan Killough had a few of the Rock Creek Muller barrels listed on his website for a couple of days. I purchased one of the Sporter profile barrels and still have it sealed in the original shipping carton. I should have gotten a .900 straight at the time, but they sold...

Further testing with the Rock Creek / Dan Muller barrel For those who may be interested: The last several days have been much windier than normal for this time of year, with a mixture of rain and thunderstorms. I had removed a perfectly good shooting Shilen Ratchet .900" barrel from my XIII...

I'm embarrassed to say that on one of these monotonous repetitions, I neglected to reinstall the action screws and couldn't tell they were missing by the quality of groups I was shooting. However, it was painfully obvious when I started to remove the barreled action from the stock and it fell...

Richard, Yesterday, when I was at the range, Bobby Moe showed up (our club's best savvy shooter) without his equipment and sat in a chair directly behind my bench, as I was cranking on the tuner. My rifle was sitting in my new Pappas one piece rest, then he said, hey your (Nightforce) scope is...

The Shilen Ratchet has been my go to barrel ... have them on three rifles (Sporter, 10 1/2, 13 1/2) all are very good shooters and for the most part not finicky when it comes to ammo selection. However, I have read good things about the Rock Creek / Muller MI (button rifled) barrels and some are...

Bob Collins, Are we to understand that Lapua has come out with a new bullet profile for Midas + and will now be printing the average speed "per lot" on the boxes as does Eley, for Match and Tenex? The Lapua sponsored matches appear to be an excellent way to promote competition between the two...

Ballard shooter, my guess is that you may have addressed not only Richards stock finish issue, but also mine. About two months ago, I decided to apply (spray gun) a two part automotive clear coat finish to my Sporter and heavy RFBR stocks. In the past I have only sprayed one stock at a time. I...

Richard, Home Depot has silicone spray (near tool section) and it's less than $4 bucks a can. I will bring a can to the match Saturday, but it's best to let the application dry a while before use. If you have compressed air available, it may help in removing the baby powder from the pores of...

Wax on bullet Pete, I read the comment about the wax never reaching the end of the barrel. Engineer stated the wax on the bullet was mostly to assist in chambering a round. I'm surprised that there has not been more discussion on this issue, as most RFBR shooters believes fouling shots are...