Tips for Benchrest Shooters

Brendan Atkinson's 10 tips for Benchrest Shooters

Brendan is one of Australia's most successful Benchrest shooters ever. He has won 5 National Championship in the 4 Gun and also won the 2 Gun individual Gold medal at the 2001 World Benchrest Championships plus the teams Gold Medal representing Australia at the 2009 World Championships together with Stuart Elliott, Craig Whittleton and Paul Sullivan.

Download Brendans Ten tips for Benchrest shooters

here (PDF 47 Kb)

 

Download Brendans article on Borescopes

here (PDF 52kb)

 

Australian team wins World Championships 2009

here (PDF 84kb)

Wind Charts

Here are a couple of wind charts for bullet drift. This is a generalization and shows the effects more for the 22 LR rimfire in competition. Note these do not take into account any terrain effects the wind has on bullet drift like banks, trees and undulating ground for example.

 

Download a document on how to read wind charts

here (PDF 141Kb)

Scoring gauges

A primer on scoring gauges by Gary Anderson. Mainly for the 22 LR Rimfire and Air Gun competitions for application target shooting. In Benchrest that is HunterClass, IRB and the RBA.

 

Download a Primer on Scoring Gauges

here (PDF 119 Kb)