ned kelly wrote:G'day Steve,
I had similar issues when I started on this forum too. Just keep asking questions there are no dumb questions but you might get a dumb answer!
But mostly the info is very solid and here are some links that I find very useful myself and is a good place to to start your research as a new long range shooter
https://www.targetshooter.co.uk/ Some good articles on many things other than just Aus and US sites
https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/ I use this website to get latest news from the US but the articles, reloading guides, gun of the week are full of great info such as these two below
https://www.accurateshooter.com/shootin ... rom-bipod/ https://www.accurateshooter.com/guns-of ... unweek032/I've also attached a phot of proper benchrest setup on concrete benches, easily modified for bipod rifles. You sit in the cut out and yes you can shoot tiny groups from them. You may need to hold the forend down to stop it bouncing on the hard surface too
Hope this helps
Cheers Geoff
Sweet I'll check these links out, thanks heaps.
The set up shown above is what I'm referring to, with the rifle further across where it fits well on the bench, I either have to twist my body to the right to stay somewhat square behind the buttstock or rotate my body and have an angled set up against the rifle. I feel much more comfortable if I can square up behind it with my shoulders in line, but to do this I have to sit the rifle further to the left to the point where the bipod is only about 2cm behind the front of the bench and my rear bag has the bottom left corner of it virtually free floating off the half circle.
However, this does allow me to get the buttstock in my centre right pec directly in line with my cheek weld and this feels the most comfortable and consistent to me, with the downside being the sandbag only having about 75% contact with the bench.
If I could sit behind the flat part of the bench I would, but as you'd know the muzzle has to be over the end of the bench.
However, in videos where I have seen people use benches with a nice half circle in the end with plenty of flat room in front of it, they're able to get into a very nice stable position.
I'm sure there's a way around this and I'll probably find it when I look at these links shortly, but thus far I haven't been able to find a comfortable position with the rifle further across that also allows me to achieve nice alignment.
Anyway is that your rifle? It looks very nice. Thanks again for the links.
