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I have one. What do I think about it? It's an interesting bit of kit - from the fifties I think. The trigger is a bit of a pain and the bolt-cocking is not exactly 'knife through butter'. I keep thinking I might have a play with the spring - and it would be good to fit another trigger...

I'm shooting 105 Bergers with my Dasher and a 24 inch barrel in 600 yd benchrest. I'd use a longer one but this was a cut-down 6-284 (cheapskate) but it works very well. Vince (UK)

Swiss shooter I've had a few rifles chambered for the Swiss Match and 6-6.5x47 Lapua. The cases are very similar - the SM is about a millimetre shorter in the body and a millimetre longer in the neck. Thus, Swiss Match size brass can be created by simply running the 6.5x47 Lapua case though a...

Jeff, Target Shooter magazine will do an obituary for Mike in our April issue. Would you permit us to use your photograph? Incidentally Jeff, I don't know if you remember me but we met at the Benchrest Worlds in Austria a few years ago - I was part of the GB Team. Many thanks Vince (UK)

Guys - we have a write-up on Seb's first Joystick bi-pod in the March edition of Target Shooter www.targetshooteronline.com which will be on-line any day now. Laurie Holland - who wrote the article - shot a 100.13v with it yesterday in an F/TR competition at 500 yds on the F Class target (with...

The Stiller guys came back straight away - the holes are the same as the Panda! Should be an easy swap. Vince

Thanks guys - I've used an iron before to release Araldite epoxy but I didn't know if it would work with Devcon or JB Weld. Also, Jerry Stiller warns about using too much heat with the Viper's glue-in tenon insert. The stock is rubbish anyway so if it doesn't come out, I don't mind destroying...

That's about it Seb - the Viper isn't mine but the price is right - especially if the screw-holes line up - I was hoping someone would know. I will get the Viper at weekend and take a chance! Cheers Vince

Seb - the Viper seems to be glued into the stock with Devcon. I don't know if it has screw-holes - I'm assuming it has. It might come out of the stock but I may end up destroying it. I'd just like to know, before I start, if the Viper will line up with the pillars in the new stock. If I...

Thanks Seb - yes, it must be close but the Viper (not drop port) is a glue-in and I might have to destroy the stock to get it out - which makes it less of an attractive proposition. Cheers Vince

I've been given a really nice benchrest stock which formerly housed a Stolle Panda (screw-in). I'm building a 600 yd Light Gun BR rig and I know where there is a Stiller Viper action going very cheap but how close is it to the Panda footprint? Don't mind milling out and re-bedding but the...

If you look on the Great Britain F Class website at www.gbfclass.co.uk there is a write-up on last year's European F Class Championship - probably the biggest F Class shoot in the world. The equipment list for the top ten F/TR shooters shows three Barnard P actions, two Savage, three RPA (a...

Seb, I did hear a rumour (from Brian Fox) that you might be coming to Diggle Ranges for a shoot? Vince

Hi Seb, Vince here from the UK - I'll be at the Europeans and we'll look after you. Basically, you will shoot at 8, 9 & 1000 yards on each of two days - Friday and Saturday. 15 & 2 to count at each distance but 2 and 20 at 1000 yds. That means about 112 rounds plus 'blow off' shots - say...

Mike, Why not start off by looking at what successful F/TR shooters are doing? If you look a the GB F Class website at www.gbfclass.co.uk you will see a couple of Top Ten equipment lists - for the Europeans and the GB League. You'll find which bullets and brass, powder, primers etc are used...

George, That would be good! Cheers Vince

Thank you George for your kind words about our magazine - Target Shooter - www.targetshooteronline.com We also have a free iPad/iPhone app. As with Precision Shooting magazine, we are always looking for suitable articles and big match reports from your side of the pond. (Anyone going to the...

I'd start five thou. off the lands - then try moving the bullet forward in five thou. increments. I ended up about 7 thou. into the lands. Vince

I've always used about 66gn of Reloader 25 with the 180gn Berger (work up slowly as RL25 can vary in speed from batch to batch) A lot of the F Class shooters use Vit 165 but it didn't work for me. Vince (UK)

Jackie, I don't know of a 30BR benchgun in the UK - though I have all the components - reamer, bullets, barrel etc to build one - but for group shooting, is it really worth it? Vince (UK)