Three U.K. F-Class Records Broken at Match in Scotland
Report by Laurie Holland
Blair Atholl’s Glen Tilt range in the Scottish Highlands has a worldwide reputation for being difficult thanks to constantly-varying winds influenced by the venue’s steep, irregularly-contoured terrain. Nevertheless, three new GB F-Class Association League 1,000-yard competition records were set at Glen Tilt over the weekend of August 7th and 8th. The new records were shot in Round 5 of the F-Class Association’s championship program. The event comprised five matches, three on Saturday with 20 score shots and two on Sunday with 15 for a maximum possible score of 450-90V. (UK and British Commonwealth targets score five for the Bull). Targets were the usual international F-Class design, a modified Palma type with a half-MOA white aiming mark that also scores as the ‘V’ (‘X’ in American terminology), one-MOA bull and score rings spaced a half-MOA apart.
Looking downrange at magnificent but fiendishly difficult Blair Atholl range in Perthshire, Scotland.
New 1K Records in F-Open and F-TR
In Match 1, John Carmichael of HPS-Target Rifles Ltd. used one of his own creations to shoot a 100-6V. A new record, this was the first-ever 1,000-yard, 20-shot match F-Open ‘possible’. John Cross almost immediately followed with a new F-TR record score of 96-3V, just edging Spanish F-Class competitor Ramon Fito. In the photo below, John Carmichael plots another Bull or V while shooting a record 1,000-yard score, with his RPA / HPS-TR System Gemini 7mmWSM rifle.
Sunday morning initially saw unusually light winds which no doubt helped Osprey Rifles proprietor Stuart Anselm set a new 15-shot, 1,000-yard F-TR record score of 75-4V in Match 4, using a rifle he had built himself on a Savage 12 Target action (photo below).
British F-Class competitive standards continue to rise in both classes, perhaps more markedly in F-TR which is seeing very sharp competition in 2010 as well as increased numbers of entrants. The overall winners were Peter Hunt (439-17V) in F-Open, and Stuart Anselm (424-12V) in F-TR. Blair Atholl also saw the first use of a .223 Rem caliber F-TR rifle in a 1,000-yard GB national league event with Laurie Holland taking seventh with 412-11V using 90gr Berger VLDs.
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I’d like a closer look at the red rifle, and more information if possible!
Wonderful pics… would that even one of the ranges I shoot at had those electronic scoring devices!
Nflynn
click on the link in the report for HPS-Target Rifles to get to the company’s website.
It’s an RPA Quadlock (although the System Gemini chassis stock system can be ordered to take other actions too). This is the F-Class version of the System Gemini stock, also made in prone, smallbore and 3-position ISSF versions.
I don’t know the barrel used, but it’s probably a German Lothar-Walther as HPS-Target Rifle is the UK importer and John normally uses this make on his rifles.
I hope these points help. HPS-TR has agents in several countries so they are available outside of the UK. It + RP{A Quadlock is probably the most popular combination in top-class UK F-Class Open, and it is very widely seen in British ‘Target Rifle’ (ie Fullbore Rifle in the USA).
Laurie Holland,
York, England
UK F-Class, business as usual.
Congratulations. AS