FROM THE BENCH Cont...
This is Don Burrows – a Kiwi by birth - he celebrated his 80th
birthday at the November shoot
We know you are all accuracy nuts – whatever you use your rifle for and we hope that this new class will encourage a few field shooters to come along and have a go at the odd competition and find out what your rifles are really capable
of..............Don’t be shy – you just might like it!
Ferris Pindell & Lou Palmisano RIP I’m sure that most ‘accuracy nuts’ will be aware that the PP in the 6PPC cartridge stands for Pindell and Palmisano. These two guys were responsible for developing the world’s most inherently accurate cartridge out to 300 yards.
I will not trot out the story of how Dr Lou Palmisano found by chance a dusty box of 220 Russian cartridges in a gunshop and got his gunsmith buddy Ferris to build him a benchrest rifle to shoot a blown-out version of this round (22PPC) and proceeded to ‘blow everyone into the weeds’ at the famous Super Shoot around 35 years ago – but I just did!
Ferris passed away in April and Lou just last month in October. I had the honour of meeting Ferris at the Benchrest World Championships in the USA in 2005. Would you believe it, he was showing everyone a bullet-pointing die he was working on. “Yeh Ferris, but why would anyone want to do that..............”
New stuff
Last month, Target Shooter featured the latest version of the SEB NEO joystick front rest. It is very good but it isn’t cheap. The American Farley is also a great joystick rest but even more expensive when shipping is factored in.
Here’s another joystick from Italian manufacturer Varide Cicognani. Varide’s rest is close to the Farley in appearance and, although I haven’t used one, I did get to look at Geoff Kolbe’s (of Border Barrels) at Bisley recently. Geoff has replaced the bearings, which has improved smoothness and he has also added a counter-balance weight.
Check out the Cicognani website at
www.varidecicognani.com The price is 700 Euros plus shipping. It should work out about the same as a SEB NEO.
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