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rifles for HP training

I can't offer any recommendations about the CMP Kimber or the Marlin 2000. I do have a CMP H&R M12 that I love but it's not really so good for XC training. The stock is definitely designed for prone shooting only.

Consider an air rifle for training. Randolph Constantine recommends it highly in his book and there are some articles by David Tubb at zediker.com that talk about it. Rifles that would be competitive in serious 10 meter competition are not cheap -- $1K and up -- but for practice, a Brno Tau 200 or Daisy Valiant would be perfectly serviceable and run in the $400 neighborhood.

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Maybe I missed it, but there doesn't seem to be much a formal SmallBore crowd here on RimfireCentral; is there another forum/board somewhere that I can pick their brains for good rifles to start w/, and which ones to avoid? Similarly, any air rifle competition forums?

Try http://www.midcoast.com/~pilkguns/bbs/wwwboard.html for 10 meter talk. There is a smallbore forum at jouster.com but I can't say whether it qualifies as "formal" smallbore. They would be the guys with the straight skinny on the CMP Kimber and the M44 though.

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