I have so much to say about the event that I have decided to write about it over several issues looking first at the general aspects and scores, then juniors and then some of the kit that the Americans have access to. This first article will be short because..... well, I am still jet lagged having returned just a few days ago. My body-clock is malfunctioning somewhat! So forgive the lack of prose as I am relying on a picture-diary this month.
Sponsorship is hard to come by these days but we had a massive amount of sponsorship for this WRABF World Championship - from Eley, Killough Sports, SEB rests, BulzeyePro, Leupold, Broughton Barrels, Baities and JSB. So publicly, a great thanks to all these companies. The event finished with some phenomenal results and a few broken world records.
We can thank organizer Craig Young, a world class competitor and medal winner in his own right, for such a splendid event. He has planned and developed the Championship over the last two years. Yet another success for the rimfire benchrest shooting and for the sponsors with their continued support of individual sportspeople, national teams and events like this one.
The USA Team, as expected, did extremely well, taking most of the medal haul. With eight countries attending this time, we met old friends and made a few new ones. I know my wife thoroughly enjoyed the country while I was shooting. So much so she wanted another week, even in that heat and humidity.
Onto the event. There were eight matches over eight days which included Air Rifle, Light and Heavy Varmint, 25 and 50 metre in all of the rimfire classes which were Sporter, Light Varmint and Heavy Varmint. I heard someone comment about the heat and humidity - it was like running a marathon several times over!
I shot six matches and that was enough, with practice days in between. Some shot the whole eight, which must have been a bit of an endurance test. Most international events like this go on for a maximum of five days and even the local guys were feeling the pressure at the end.
To say that we all had ups and downs is something we can all comment on individually and reading the forums you can read personal accounts of the championship at
http://www.rimfireaccuracy.com/ Forums/
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41 Flags of the world
2011 World Rimfire Benchrest Championships USA By Carl Boswell
Hot, humid but windy
Is there a shark in that sandwich - Jens had success in offshore fishing as well
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