Congratulations to the UK F Class Team

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Andy, we need an F Class section on this forum

Brian

Tell me Tag, when you look up is there a big black cloud over your head and it’s always raining. Seems like it from most of the posts you make.

The F Class team deserve congratulating for their great performance at Bisley.

I don’t know, you guys finally win something and some are still not happy. Maybe you should look at what they have done and run a WC in the UK, all that home town advantage stuff could only help.

While F-class doesn’t use a bench they do use a rest, it’s still a form of BR to me.

Peter

Peter,

I’m looking at getting a new Sightron scope from a gunsmith in the States, here’s an email I just received from him:

“Hi Brian back in town 3 pm my time is around 11 pm your time would that be correct? I am on the east coast of the US. Congrats to your F-Class team!!”

Looks like everyone is pleased to congratulate the GB F- Class team, except Tag.

Brian

Brian You can't take it away from them they did the business.

They won whooppie do. :lol:

As the yanks said they were closing the gap real quick by the end of the comp. If they had started hitting form earlier there by negating that much valued home ground advantage who knows what tale we would be telling now.

Not being an F Class aficionado myself I was hoping you could answer a quick question for me. When was the last time a team or individual from the UK won a major international F class comp prior to Bisley.

Tag,
We are all allowed our own opinions, but having been on a few Australian scoped positional teams in rimfire and centerfire and having shot with a rest off the ground a few times IMO F class is more like BR than prone.

Peter

Peter

True we are all allowed our own opinions. Your experiences are yours.
I have no wish to be pedantic but the terminology is clear and precise. Bench................ Rest.

Not Ground Rest. Not Bag Rest.

Laying on the ground and using a rest is prone shooting with an accessory in order to reduce the human error element. . Sitting at a bench and using a rest is Bench Rest shooting. End of.

Hi Tag
I think in the rules you can shoot the benchrest prone,this is so shooters who don't have the facilities for a bench to take part in competition,[like the 22br postal].

It would be interesting if any shooters out there are in this situation,or if they posted whatever problems they have had, in been able to shoot 22 bench at their club.

We at our club are luckey to have had alot of help from the committee and the club management in getting it up and running at my club.
New benches, targets , and range time.
We shoot 2 saturdays a month[mornings ]Wed Afternoon indoor /outdoor,One saturday morning a month outdoor.
Regards John F.

Hi John

Is that the same ruling for centrefire BR?

I think as the popularity of .22BR grows more clubs will have to invest in equipment and time allocation. Otherwise they wont survive. More of them will close during this recession that's for certain.

Personally I cant see F class growing much more in the UK simply due to a lack of facilities. I can't see many people willing to, spend 3 hours in their car to lie out on some wet, wind swept bit of country side, and then spend another 3 hours getting home.

Hi Tag
I just shoot a small amount of F class so not up on the rules,I believe there is 2 classes of that disipline.One uses a front rest only,[bigger bull] The other class is rest front and rear [smaller bull].I'm sure some one will tell us the right story.

We shoot 22 prone of raised benches,so I suppose we are within the scope of benchrest whether prone or sitting.

So come on guys keep the thread going and give us your thoughs on this one.
Regards John F.

Seems we need an F-Class dedicated section.

Come on Andy, I know you can do it. It’s just low level, longer distance benchrest.

Tag says "they (the Yanks) were closing the gap real quick by the end of the comp."

Here's how it went Tag:

Match 1 GB lead by 1 point. Match 2 GB lead by 6 points. Match 3 GB lead by 19 points. Match 4 GB lead by 36 points. Match 5 GB lead by 42 points. Match 6 GB lead (and win) by 59 points.

Yeah - catching up real quick.