https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2014/05/blast-from-the-past-benchresters-circa-1955/ from AccurateShooter.com Sat, 04 Jul 2026 23:02:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.26 https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2014/05/blast-from-the-past-benchresters-circa-1955/comment-page-1/#comment-44872 Wed, 14 May 2014 01:46:45 +0000 http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/?p=54785#comment-44872 How things have changed. I own an unmodified match rifle from that era dated 1952. Built by F. Harvey Miles of Bedford, VA. It is built on a Springfield 1903 action with the original trigger modified to about 2 lbs. pull. The barrel is a 28″ Pfeiffer cut-rifled bull barrel chambered in 30-06. The stock is entirely hand-made and inletted, with nary a drop of bedding compound, but it requires a good-sized mallet to get the barreled action out or in. The barrel is tightly installed in the wide, rounded forend with about 14″ of barrel extending beyond the forend. It has a globe front sight and Redfield Match rear sight, but was also drilled and tapped for scope mounts. Several years ago I dug up a set of mounts and installed a scope on it just to see what would happen. With 165 gr. Sierra Match bullets and Varget it shoots about 1/4 MOA at 100 yards. Amazing, Grace!!!!

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