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Special stock and heavy precision barrel are used on competitive bench rifle by custom builder Clair Taylor of Rixford, Pa.<br />
BENCH REST SHOOTING COMBINES<br />
MOST INTRICATE EQUIPMENT WITH<br />
SIMPLEST OF PRINCIPLESÑHITTIN<br />
TARGET IN SAM,E SPOT CONTINUALLY<br />
By H. JAY ERFURTH<br />
HEY HAVE an aiming point and a bullseye on the<br />
Ttarget paper, yet they don't even have to hit the<br />
target to win! Their rifles weigh upwards of 17 pounds<br />
on an average and are as securely settled as a cannon,<br />
1<br />
yet the most important single element of the whole shoott<br />
ing match is a flimsy moving strip of paper where their<br />
hits are registered. A look at the loading paraphernalia<br />
inside a shooter's station wagon is like a quick tour of<br />
an Oak Ridge laboratory, yet the game is so simple even<br />
a kid can play-and with top success. They've been<br />
called America's fussiest shooters, yet now-standard factory<br />
guns are being used in matches, and one of the most<br />
precise cartridges yet developed for their work came<br />
straight out of a green and white Remington package,<br />
the .222. These gunners are the bench rest shooters,<br />
striving for the ultimate in accuracy, a one-hole shot<br />
group at umpteen hundred yards. .<br />
Bench rest record for 10 shots measures .2323" across.
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