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Day One of Extreme Benchrest 2025 started – as usual – with the Extreme Field Target and Steel Scramble competitions. Both events ran for pretty-much the full day and generated a TON of interest for the competitors!
Below. Greg Suave was shooting Extreme Field Target with a chassis-mounted Daystate Red Wolf.
But in everyone’s minds, there was the weather background. You see, as of today, Phoenix is in the “cone of uncertainty” for the path of Hurricane Priscilla. That brings the potential for rain and floods to the later days of Extreme Benchrest at the Rio Salado range.
Will that happen? Dunno, we’ll have to wait and see…
Extreme Benchrest 2025 Day One – Extreme Field Target
Below. 2022 Pro Class Extreme Benchrest winner Jeffrey Hernandez was shooting a Skout this year in Extreme Field Target.
There’s two classes for this competition, as follows:
- Extreme Class is for calibers between .25 and .35 cal. with a maximum 150 Ft/Lbs of Muzzle Energy.
- Sniper Class is for .22 caliber with a maximum Muzzle Energy of 65 Ft/Lbs.
Below. There’s a target down there somewhere in the desert!
In both cases, there’s a minimum power requirement of 28 Ft/Lbs at the muzzle. That’s required to knock down the targets!
In either case, the targets are placed at distances from 15 to 100 Yards. The distances are marked. Each shooter has 5 minutes to shoot all 4 targets twice for a total of 8 shots per station.
Below. Chuck Meisenheimer was another Red Wolf shooter in Extreme Field Target.
Top-level rules are that pellets only are allowed and there is a scope magnification limit of 32 X. But any shooting position is allowed within marked shooting area at the firing point.
Below. Every firing point is supervised. Here AoA’s Dillon Treloar observes the hits.
Extreme Benchrest 2025 Day One – Action Armour Steel Scramble
The Scramble Match comprises five lanes of Precision/NRL22 format stages with reactive steel targets.
Below. Justin Jacobsen from Utah Airguns prepares to fire his FX Panthera from the “roof” position in the Steel Scramble.
Competitors are squadded into groups of 4 – 6 shooters, with a “shotgun start” for the various squads competing at one time. Squads move as a group to the next lane, repeating until all lanes have been shot.
Below. Mark Davies from Umarex USA was competing with his Umarex Zelos.
Commercial pellet and/or slugs are allowed in .22 to .30 caliber. Maximum Muzzle Energy is 150 Ft/Lbs and, again, 28 Ft/Lbs is the minimum power level.
Below. Todd Hatfield shooting from the barricade position.
There’s a wide variety of shooting positions required. That alone makes this another compelling and exciting competition!
Extreme Benchrest 2025 Day One – Sight-In Range
The other activity taking place on Day One was sighting-in for the 50-, 75- and 100-Yard Extreme Benchrest competitions.
Below we see two-time 100 Yard Extreme Benchrest winner Claudio Flores from Chile with his American Air Arms Evol. Claudio is the only person ever to win the 100 Yard Professional Class twice!
Below. Rok from RTI had traveled over from his home country of Slovenia in Europe to attend Extreme Benchrest. Below we see him looking proud of his RTI Mora air rifle.
Tomorrow the benchrest competition begins! Stay tuned for additional reports…
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