FROM THE BENCH
VINCE’S REGULAR COLUMN WHEREBY ACCURACY NUTS CAN KEEP UP TO DATE WITH THE ACTIVITIES OF THE UKBRA AND ACCURACY RELATED ITEMS
Competitions We have a full write-up of the World Benchrest Championships elsewhere in this issue but we’ll concentrate on our Diggle 100/1000 yard shoots in September – our penultimate double weekend. I know I complain about the weather we get at Diggle rather a lot in this column but, this month, it surpassed even our usual horrendous winds.
On Saturday, for our 100 yard shoot, it seemed that only four shooters had a clue what was happening – and I wasn’t one of them! It came down to a last Match battle between current UKBRA Champion Ian Dixon and former Champion, Jeanette Whitney. Only a couple of thousandths of an inch separated them going into the last Match and Ian was the first to fall victim to the switchy winds, shooting an embarrassing ‘four’. Unfortunately, Jeanette shot an even bigger one, relegating herself into runner-up spot with Bruce Lenton (back from a great World Championship) in third and Jack Searle a good fourth.
Results: Heavy Varmint 1st
Ian Dixon
2nd Jeanette Whitney 3rd 4th
Bruce Lenton Jack Searle Small group
Factory Sporter 1st
Jack Mills Andy Woolley
2nd Darrel Evans 3rd
Small group
6PPC Walker BAT 6PPC TGP Stolle 6PPC Stolle 6PPC Stolle Ian Dixon
6PPC Sako 6PPC Sako
223 Remington Andy Woolley
0.2966 inches 0.3004 0.3068 0.328
0.133 inches
0.5368 inches 0.5882 0.6864
0.347 inches
Alan Seagrave with his remarkable Factory Rifle
The following day, the wind was still howling for our 1000 yard shoot. Whilst many were shooting quite enormous groups, Steve Dunn got on with the job and produced a remarkable string of sub. ten-inch groups to easily take the win. Amazingly, it was Alan Seagrave shooting his 6.5x55 Tikka factory rifle who took second spot and thus winning Factory Sporter Class and shooting FS small group in the process.
Steve didn’t have it all his own way and despite four, single-figure groups, it was Jeanette Whiney who shot small group of the day with a superb 5.677 incher.
Results: Light Gun 1st
Steve Dunn
2nd Alan Seagrave 3rd
Factory Sporter 1st
Alan Seagrave
2nd Bruce Lenton 3rd
Peter Regan Small group
Mike McGuigan Small group
7mmBooBoo BAT 6.5x55 Tikka 6.5x47 GBR
Jeanette Whitney 6.5x55 Tikka
6.5-284 Savage 338 Sako TRG Alan Seagrave
8.494 inches 11.482 12.313
6.5-06 TGP Rem.
11.482 inches 13.379 14.30
7.838 inches
We are now nearing the end of the season with just one shoot left at 100/1000 yards on October 22/23rd. If you have any aspirations at all to try benchrest, why not come along and give it a go? E-mail
vinceb@6ppc.fsnet.co.uk for more info. or visit
www.ukbra.co.uk
43 5.677 inches
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