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My first post covered what you need to know so now I'm going to add some things you may want to know. The classes: I realize this is old hat for many readers but perhaps there are some that do not know about IR 50/50 classes. The IR 50/50 Sporter is the most evolved RFBR rifle we shoot today...

They are actually thermos bottles. Double lined and all. Found them on an internet site. TKH

Jerry, I think that Hall sporter was built for Paul Wilmouth. He was the match director in WV that used to have the pig roast shoots. TKH

You can just show up and shoot. But it would be nice to know how many are coming for planning purposes but no one will be turned away.

The IR 50/50 Nationals will be held at the Fairchance Gun Club in Pa. Fairchance Gun Club is located in Smithfield , Pa. The Nationals this year will consist of 4 Primary Classes. Sporter, #-Gun, Factory, and Unlimited. Basically, if you have a rimfire rifle you can come and compete in at...

More Doodles TKH

More of Bills Doodles TKH

The Bill Calfee I knew (part 7) Bill wrote many articles for Precision Shooting Magazine. In those articles he stated his thoughts on what it took to build RFBR rifles. He also used the magazine to showcase his Remington XP conversions, his pistols. Most of the readership of the magazine were...

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The Bill Calfee I knew (part 6) Bill lived alone for a great portion of his life and that caused him to become super focused on things that interested him. He had many interests. He loved classical music, drawing, painting, but his primary interest was Rimfire Benchrest rifles and pistols. He...

The Bill Calfee I knew (part 5) I had the pleasure of visiting Bill and watching him work in his shop. I will admit it was quite an experience. Looking at his old machines I could not believe he could turn out work like he did using them. But after watching him for a while I soon learned how...

The Bill Calfee I knew (part4) When I finally got Bill to build Tack Driver I was over the moon. It shot like a house on fire. Eley was in its heyday of producing quality ammo and matches were scheduled everywhere. I would just pick a place and go shoot a match nearly every weekend. But...

Bill Calfee built many more rifles and pistols than shown here. He once told me he had built twice as many SAP action guns as he did PAS action guns. These pics will bring back memories for many. When we lost Bill we lost a lot. I'll get back to my story in Part 4. If you are still reading, I...

More pics. TKH

For part 3. I'm going to post a bunch of pictures showcasing Bill's rifles, these are only the later ones. He built many others before these, but I don't have pics of those. If anyone has pics not shown here and would like to post them, please do. I would like to show Bill's work as complete as...

The Bill Calfee I knew (part 2) When I returned from overseas, I thought I wanted to get back into centerfire benchrest but that did not last long. I knew I wanted to make contact with Bill Calfee, but everyone told me that was a waste of time. He had more work than he could do and without a...

Bill was a rare and special person. One could consider his life’s work to be advancing Rimfire accuracy. It would be fair to say he is and was Mr. Rimfire Benchrest (RFBR). But he was so much more than that. I didn’t know Bill as well as many others. He came into my life when I developed a...

The advice I can give you is to look on the IR 50/50 website for a match close to you and go have a look. Take your rifle and shoot it. If you don’t shoot they will not take you serious. Meet as many people as you can and they will share with you everything you need to know to bring you up to...

Bob, Good hearing from you. I wish it was under better circumstances. Thanks for sharing your information about Bill. Everyone that knew him knew he was a special guy. I hope more people will share their stories about Bill. TKH

This is a post I copied from Bill’s site. It was posted by Jeff Patterson. " It's with great sadness, a very heavy heart that I must announce that Bill Calfee passed from this world today. Renown Gunsmith, with a World of Records and achievements. There will Never Be Another....... My mentor...