Weapons
Benchrest: The Nuts and Bolts Part 2
OAP The rests. Having dealt with the choice of scope, it is time to consider the rests. If you can’t see it, you can’t hit it. If you haven’t got a steady rest, you cant hit it either. In the photo above, you will notice the foreground
Benchrest: The Nuts and Bolts
OAP What gear do you need? While all clubs have club owned rifles, very few will have them set up for bench shooting. The rifle. Any current target .22 except the BSA. The reason being that they don’t have a dovetail mount on the receiver for the sight sets.
Benchrest. Yes, but How?
OAP Before I start waffling on about my pet subject, I will spend today answering some questions that came up in the comments on my article last week. Firstly, you don’t need a Firearms Licence to take part. You would be under the close supervision of a qualified person
Benchrest Shooting: the Search for the Ultimate in Accuracy
OAP It looks simple, a bunch of mostly elderly people sitting at tables with their rifles supported front and rear blasting away at a target at the end of a long hall. They are mostly those, like me, who are finding it difficult to lie down to shoot off their
Why Americans Are Buying More Guns Than Ever
Aimee Huff Michelle Barnhart Oregon State University Americans have been on a record gun-buying spree in recent months. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic and protests for racial justice, the gun industry’s trade association, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, estimates that gun sales from March through July were 8.5 million.
The Third Bomb That Never Fell
The recent 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki prompted the usual argy-bargy over whether the bombs were morally justified (they were). But what would no doubt horrify pearl-clutching Guardian readers is the little-known fact that the Allies were fully prepared to drop more bombs if they