Tony Gauthier
Tony G.
I hate to bother you guy's but just shot a match and have our Canadian National match next week end.[
I shoot off of a Farley 2 front rest ( for the last 2 years ) due to arthritis. Bat action Krieger bbl. and have shot benchrest for 10 years. Before this last match I put a set of Butches tension screws in the rest. I also put on a new Krieger bbl. to break in the day prior to the match. The bbl. I had on was shooting very well and friday the new bbl. was also.
At 100 yds. saturday it started to shoot 3's and 2's and 4's and 1's with some vertical, but continued thinking it was normal break in.
At 200 the next day it continued to show vertical only increased to the point that I felt the bbl. was no good. Switched to the known good bbl. and still showed same vertical, switched to a known good scope and same, switched rear bag worse, shot free recoil, pinned,and not holding the joy stick with all showing the identical string, switched to a proven front rest problem solved. The vertical would go down in a straight line from first shot in the bottom of moth ball to the bottom of the record target. There were 3 world team competitors at the match and all watched me shoot and felt there was no condition to possibly give me that type of group.
My question is can there be a problem with the mechanical part of the rest after I changed the tension screws, or is it a bag problem? The front bag is an Edgewood. I took a few days off from work and will go to the range tomorrow and see what I can do. Just hoping someone here has run into this and can give me a place to start. I thought it was gun handling due to the size of the groups, but as soon as I had no vertical from a good rest am sure it is something to do with the front rest.
I shoot off of a Farley 2 front rest ( for the last 2 years ) due to arthritis. Bat action Krieger bbl. and have shot benchrest for 10 years. Before this last match I put a set of Butches tension screws in the rest. I also put on a new Krieger bbl. to break in the day prior to the match. The bbl. I had on was shooting very well and friday the new bbl. was also.
At 100 yds. saturday it started to shoot 3's and 2's and 4's and 1's with some vertical, but continued thinking it was normal break in.
At 200 the next day it continued to show vertical only increased to the point that I felt the bbl. was no good. Switched to the known good bbl. and still showed same vertical, switched to a known good scope and same, switched rear bag worse, shot free recoil, pinned,and not holding the joy stick with all showing the identical string, switched to a proven front rest problem solved. The vertical would go down in a straight line from first shot in the bottom of moth ball to the bottom of the record target. There were 3 world team competitors at the match and all watched me shoot and felt there was no condition to possibly give me that type of group.
My question is can there be a problem with the mechanical part of the rest after I changed the tension screws, or is it a bag problem? The front bag is an Edgewood. I took a few days off from work and will go to the range tomorrow and see what I can do. Just hoping someone here has run into this and can give me a place to start. I thought it was gun handling due to the size of the groups, but as soon as I had no vertical from a good rest am sure it is something to do with the front rest.
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