“Hi Rog, do you fancy coming along to EBR this year, it's going to be big?” Well what could I say, other than: “Of course I do! When do I leave?” This is the type of phone call you really want to get from Robert Buchanan of Airguns of Arizona. EBR is a massive event and it's a real honour to be invited. But to be perfectly honest, I was a little scared.
I have shot loads and loads of HFT, but not much benchrest, so it was time for me to try to get good – really quickly! So it was out with the Daystate Red Wolf and straight to my permission. And it was also out with the scales to weigh pellets again.
Extreme Benchrest comprises a series of competitions, being 50-yard benchrest, 75-yard benchrest and the dreaded 100-yard benchrest, along with a PRL, an extreme FT-style comp and of course the big bore and speed silhouette comps.
There was so much to do, but how on earth could I learn all of these in
