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Why not call Bill Earnest directly? His number is 570-797-4872.

Bill Burkert

Obviously, if you are testing at the Eley facility you are interested in top flight accuracy. I would rebarrel. Some of the Anschutz barrels are kick-butt, some are not. I have a 2013 Anschutz which did not shoot all that well until I put a Lilja on it in 2008. My prone scores took an immediate jump...

Dear Doug, Talk to them, why wait if you are not happy. They should make good on it and hopefully will learn that if they want to compete against world class rifles they better offer a world class product. According to people who know about such things that XIII action could be a great one. I still ...

I have a BeeSting Tuner/Bloop and it is very well made. I can recommend it. The only thing I do not like is cleaning it. This is due to the different interior diameters. The other beauty of Tarl's system, as well as the Uptegrafft, is the ability to rotate and set the indexing collar in a position o...

For what it is worth... I used a 6X-24X with a 1/4" dot for a number of years. I used it for 3P and prone and always shot it at 24X in prone. This summer, on my prone rifle, I went to a 36X with a 1/8" dot. The crosshairs are fine and the dot is a little small. I tend to lose it in certain...

Regarding 6:00 vs 12:00 firing pin strike. Again, I must mention Geoffrey Kolbe and the Border Barrels website. He did some work on 6:00 vs 12:00 ignition. I believe he measured chamber pressures. I had some experience with shooting a particular action with 6:00 ignition, and while I won't mention t...

I shoot a 2013 Anschutz purchased in 2002. It came with a short factory barrel and bloop tube. I replaced the factory barrel with a drop-in 21" Lilja which I installed in 2007 or 2008 and my prone scores jumped. After several years of prone shooting, I removed the Lilja for housecleaning and wh...

I can agree with you, but rather than offering alternative ideas, I want others to read the actual petition and act upon it.

You might talk to the owner of Border Barrels, Geoffrey Kolbe, in reference to finding a good rimfire gunsmith. By the way, Border Barrels are super. I have a buddy here in the US who shoots a Border and when he is on, he is tough to beat. His barrel is obviously very, very accurate. He owns an anys...

Hopefully the link has been corrected and will now work.

I happen to agree with the petition. I think the shooters who started it explained it as well as it can be explained.

Afterall, the event is 3 position.

I received a petition today regarding an ISSF rule change.

Please look it over, it is one paragraph long, and let your opinion be known. This would effect shooting in the USA as well.



http://www.petitiononline.com/ruleISSF/petition.html

I have a Hall actioned rifle. Below is a summary of the prone rifle which I built this spring. It is extremely accurate. It has to be. We shoot at 50 yards, 50 meters and 100 yards. 100 yards is the acid test. Hall action Jewell BR trigger Lilja barrel BeeSting tuner This rifle is capable of sub-.50...

I do agree with Justadude and the other folks here when it comes to your first rifle. An off the shelf 1913 will give you the accuracy you'll need to get started in this fascinating game of prone shooting. I hope you'll get to enjoy it as much as I do to the point where it is an obsession requiring ...

Dear Dave IRL: I must respectfully disagree with your statement regarding the lack of benchrest ideas in prone shooting in world class competition... Mr. Eric Uptegrafft is one name I can give you at the world class level who used benchrest ideas in the design of his action and his use of a tuner. L...

I am assuming that you want to be able to compete in prone at the highest level possible. Here is my two cents worth... If that is your goal it is my opinion that you ought to invest in benchrest type equipment. Shooting prone is a little different than shooting 3P and demands the most accurate rifl...

This is an interesting thread. I'd never heard of a "selected" rifle or barrel. My ignorance never ceases to amaze me. Perhaps this is getting a little off track here but if I were in the rifle business, I would sell a case(s) of ammo with the rifle. The lot would be the same lot used to c...

The fact that Emmons received another medal in this his third Olympics, indicates his greatness. Matt is not able to control the outcome of the match, particularly when another shooter is at the absolute top of his game. The Olympic records set by the Italian shooter indicate the kind of match which...

Kenny, For us older and technologically challenged individuals, what does one need to do to get that black screen to play something? I am, of course, referring to the link you provided for Jamie's video. By the way, when Erin called me at my business this morning to tell me about Jamie he was as exc...

Dear Fellow Shooters, Jamie Beyerle Gray, USA, has just won this morning the Gold Medal in Women's 3P and in the process, setting two Olympic records. Jamie is from Lebanon, PA and was coached by Erin Gestl while shooting for Palmyra in the Inter-County Rifle League. She went on to shoot at the Univ...

Your best bet when shooting with mirage present is to use it to your advantage. Simply pick a condition, hopefully the most prevalent, and shoot in it. For example, if it is running left to right and that is the condition in which you shooting, then do not shoot if the mirage starts to boil straight...