TargetTalk

I've epoxy bedded several rifles with conventional bedding, not pillar. Conventional bedding is easier to do. Pillar bedding came about many years ago when the first synthetic stocks had a core that was too soft to resist compressing when the stock screws were tightened. Pillars were made pretty lar...

When I got my Kurt Thune prone only coat, I put on the top four of five buttons. Then I put a 25X scope on my rifle, put on the coat with the help of a home-made button hook, slung up and went into position. Sighting on a target, I noted the size of my wobble area. I repeated this process a few time...

Lones Wigger told me a few weeks ago at our league shoot at the Olympic Training Center that Eley's new Tenex Ultimate Semi Auto is now becomming a favorite of the rimfire benchrest discipline. It's bullet is shaped like the pre EPS one and has a special lubricant. And he's using it now himself. So,...

For most folks shooting prone with their sight axis about 35mm to 40mm above bore center, I think the cheekpiece top center line that aligns with the bore should be about 2mm to 3mm above bore center. One thing to do for checking all of your body parts being in the right position is to get into posi...

I've watched the prone match winners and other top scores fired by both types for several years. I don't think there is any significant difference between those barreled actions that are epoxy bedded. But I do believe the standard factory bedding of the flat bottom receivers in wood stocks is a litt...

As the father of a Federal Air Marshal, I'm wondering why Pool singled out a TSA person as possibly tampering with Emmons' rifle when other company's people also handled the luggage. Oh well, fretting fathers are a dime a dozen...... Meanwhile, back at the ranch, er...discussion...I'm remembering wh...

Matt Emmons didn't use his regular Anschutz rifle. Here's why. I shot with Matt Emmons at the Western Wildcat 6400 prone match last March in Arizona. He won the grand aggregate with a 3200 in the iron agg. and a 3197 in the any agg. After he returned to the Olympic Training Center in Colorado and go...

Jared Miles says: "I have a problem with pulse, i have the sling high on my shoulder as much as possible but the pulse is still there. i aslo have a vast heart rate and cant slow it down, i can feel it punding while iam laying down aswell. it just keeps on going and going as fast as it can, i h...

USA military arsenals have been testing 22 and 30 caliber centerfire rifle ammo using the mean radius method. They'll shoot a couple hundred shots per test group then measure each shot hole's position to get the data. Mean radius is calculated and it's typically about one-third the extreme spread. I...

I've been shooting smallbore prone matches with Lones Wigger for many years. His feelings on cleaning rimfire barrels is to do it every 50 or so shots. He cleans after each 40-shot or 60-shot match. He's used all the best ammo from Winchester (years ago when it was great) Eley, RWS and Federal. And ...