Benchrest What Caliber Did You Shoot In The Recent 5Oyd HAM Contest?

[Billm]

I’m trying to see what the most popular caliber used was. I personally shot two different calibers.

 

[Playingdead]

In the next one I would shoot .22 and .30

 

[Soren Drost]

I guess the guys shooting .25 or .30 has an advantage ?! Bigger hole in paper and more stability in the wind I am limited to shooting .177 here in Denmark Trying to keep up !

 

[Playingdead]

I guess the guys shooting .25 or .30 has an advantage ?! Bigger hole in paper and more stability in the wind I am limited to shooting .177 here in Denmark Trying to keep up !

I am not set on using a .30. I just got my Avenge XL sorted and would like to start doing some benchrest shooting with it. If the rules say .22 I am good there, but in .177 my only accurate gun would be a HW98 springer. Do not shoot that 50 bench for sure.

 

[Soren Drost]

A 50 yard springer class would definitely be a huge challenge

 

[PapaT]

I guess the guys shooting .25 or .30 has an advantage ?! Bigger hole in paper and more stability in the wind I am limited to shooting .177 here in Denmark Trying to keep up !

Wind stability certainly, but hole still gets centered and plugged as a 22 to see where it "scores" by the app (and approximately the way I treated my look and guess as well). But against you I need every advantage I can get.

 

[Billm]

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I guess the guys shooting .25 or .30 has an advantage ?! Bigger hole in paper and more stability in the wind I am limited to shooting .177 here in Denmark Trying to keep up !

Theres no size advantage as far as scoring. ELEY -Shot finds the center of the hole and superimposes a .224” (standard .22 scoring plug) centered on that point. It then uses the circle and not the hole to score the target. A .177 and a .30 hole theoretically would be scored the same. In my opinion it’s a better way of scoring than using a larger plug on a smaller caliber. Sorry, @PapaT already answered it.

 

[Billm]

I was thinking that maybe we should limit it to .22 and smaller to bring it into line with most 50yd/50m rules. But, I don’t care either way.

 

[Bill_D]

I guess the guys shooting .25 or .30 has an advantage ?! Bigger hole in paper and more stability in the wind I am limited to shooting .177 here in Denmark Trying to keep up !

Your probably not the only one - I haven't had time, well made time - but ill be shooting a .177 also -my field target rifle and pistol. I talked to Eley about trying to figure out how to score the cards with a different "selectable" plug. Said they were kind of working on that. Would be really cool if they can make their software do that.