Usbr @ 25
Even our RFC Matches have a 25 yd USBR match. I used my T/C Classic for a year in the BOX STOCK class and finished second place every month beating a bunch olf bolt actions and losing to only one and it was close. Of course our SuperStocks are not legal in BOX STOCK but they are in other classes.
I happen to think these light weight sporters are more suited to 25 yards than 50 although I do very little shooting at 25 except when shooting a new rifle in the Sawdust 1/4" Club Game (the Granddaddy of all RFC Games).
It did use to crack me up when reading other parts of RFC and people were posting about the changes made to their rifles and then you would see them show up in BOX STOCK
I never protested one because the two rifles finishing 1st and 2nd (Danny Creasy and me) WERE BOX STOCK.
Why do I keep using all caps in saying the class is BOX STOCK? Because the much loved and missed Joe Haller our Match Director for many years tried to beat it into everyone's head it was BOX STOCK and he wrote it that way. I think it is called that to this day.
Can you imagine how easy it would be to cheat with a SuperStock rifle with a Que or CPC rechambered barrel that had been lapped and Moly Fusion treated and a KIDD trigger kit or a Brimstone (or in my case one of my own) triggers. Bed it, tune it with barrel supports (tuning with take down torque would be legal). Throw in one of those invisible rear take downs. The thing would be completely legal LOOKING but would be flat cheating!!
I would never suggest one of our guys do this and in fact if I KNEW for a fact someone was cheating would probably have to say something to him or her first and if they continued I would talk to the Match Director. When I was racing I ran two engines that were so badly illegal that very few parts in them were legal and I got torn down every race and in a year they never found a illegal part. Back then cheating was an honored tradition in racing. At the end of that year they passed a rule that if anyone was caught blatantly cheating in a stock class you could be banned for a year
That was 1985.
Like I said in NASCAR and USAC (Indy, Sprint Cars, Midgets and Champ Cars) and even in Formula One if you were smart enough to beat the tech guys it was considered an honored tradition right or wrong. These days in organizations like NASCAR the Crew Chief can be banned from a number of races up to LIFE and fined $100,000 or more and the team can lose all their owner points which can be worth millions of dollars. The days of Junior Johnson, Smokey Yunick, Gary Nelson (he was such a good cheater NASCAR hired him to run the rules and tech part of the organization!!) cheating and just winking at them are long gone.
Here at RFC people work so hard to shoot those matches well I would have to say something BUT a good SuperStock sleeper rifle could clean up in that BOX STOCK class and there is no way to tech the rifle. All on Honor System just like our Games and in 10 years of our games we have have only been convinced ONE person was cheating. He was a high school aged kid that just wanted to be one of the "cool guys" and Ricochet was merciless on the kid chasing him away forever!!
Sorry for the off the subject hijack (another fine SuperStock Tradition
) but it just struck me how easy it would be to clean up in BOX STOCK.