Dual purpose rimfire?

[Paul H]

Has anyone used a rifle for both small bore silhouette and br? Is this one of those beasts that won't be paticularly good at either discipline, or is it doable at the local club level? Also any suggestion on a scope that would fit the bill.

 

[DonMatzeder]

Many of the sporter class guns would do both quite nicely.

 

[Jetmugg]

Scopes

You could definitely use a "silhouette" style rifle with a flat bottomed forend and a stock that would work for BR. The Robertson Composite stocks sold by Mark Pharr are pretty much at the top of the silhouette heap for hunter class rifles. That would be preferable to using a true "BR" style stock in silhouette, which would not offer a good offhand hold.

With respect to scopes, most silhouette shooters prefer a dot type reticle of about 3/8 MOA. That's probably larger than most BR shooters prefer.

If you can deal with shooting silhouette with a fine crosshair or small dot reticle, then you can probably work with a dual-purpose rifle/scope combo.

Again, my 2 cents.

SteveM.

 

[Paul H]

Thanks for the input. I'm getting a suhl 150, and will run it as is to see how it shoots, then look at replacing the stock and a new barrel in the future.

I'd imagine a 36X scope would be a bit much for shooting offhand I've been debating a leupold 6.5-20, but is that too little magnification for the bench?

 

[Jetmugg]

For a beginner - yes.

For a beginning silhouette shooter, 36X is probably too high. However, many of the more experienced shooters do use scopes with that much magnification. When Premier was still "boosting" scopes, a "boosted" 6.5-20 Leupold was a favorite of silhouette shooters. This setup would allow up to 40X magnification.

Steve.

 

[dpapadimitrio@g]

Dual gun shil and bench

Mainly shoot silhouette but owe a great deal to local bench rest shooters who took me under their wings to provide insights to cleaning, reloading and other related subjects.

Shoot an Anschutz 54.18 ms with a bumped Premier 14.5 to 50X. It takes time to get used to the higher magnifications, but once you do, you'll be spoiled.

The Primers come up for sale on the "Steel Chickens" shil forum form time to time. Typically the ones based on the 1" tubes and the 6.5 x 40's.

Champion Shooters Supply sells a drop in Kelby benchrest stock that takes a 54 action. This cold get you started, at a local level at least.

I use bench rest stocks for load development (centerfire) 7-08, as the good shil stocks do not track well in the bags.

Hope this provides some help.

Dave