been  rifle doing  load development for a cpa and a highwall both are very accurate just not consistent. I feel like the problem is in my setup on the bench. I have a good solid bench and good sand bags. tried different holds. any help very much appreciated thanks md

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My Ballard is the same way plus it has 3 inch prongs on the end of the butt stock.  It takes a lot of practice.  Just can't pick it up and shoot a 250.  It takes a lot of work to stay there after you get there.

LOOK for comment from Jlouis. When he first started shooting Schuetzen Rifles built for offhand he said he wanted to compete with the Bench rifles with an offhand rifle. I told him he would not likely to be able be competitive with them. HA! He showed me. Still not sure what things he learned how to do but he has become very competitive. Ask him for advice. HTH
Regards, FITZ. OLD TUCK.

thanks for the input. a little about me 70 last jan. i'm right handed but shoot left. left eye master. I love single shot rifles. our local club has a series egg shoot every month from april to sept. great guysand good shooters. i'm the only one that shoots a single shot. most of the others are custom bolt guns. we shoot 8 at 100 8 at 200 and 8 at 300 yards. we glue a rubber band on the egg and hang it on a rack.perfect score is 24. no restrictions on weight caliber etc. I've won it twice with an old browning 78 rebarreled to 30 br. our range is in an old gravel pit and the wind can be sooo tricky. my cpa rifle has a fairly heavy hart 6mm 1 in 10 twist barrel I modified the cpa bench rest stock so it has taper on the bottom' caliber is a 240 cobra. i use norma brass. dies are lee custom collette.i've tried most  6mm bullets .I like the hornady 105 hpbt with rl 17 powder thanks hope this helps md

Please first and foremost let us first know what type of ill effects are you currently experiencing on the target. What powder, primer, seating depth and what chambering is your rifle. I am assuming you are shooting it breech seated so please correct me if I am wrong. If you could by chance send a picture of the rifle along with your bench set up it would go along way for those who are willing to help. You did not mention if your forearm was designed to be shoot off what you might now currently have for your front rest setup. If of the original design shooting off the forearm simply will not work well for you. If it's a CPA does the rifle have a through bolt or are the tang screws the means to attach the butt stock to the action. All though there are more than enough variables for one to have to sort through that all come into play. Most if not all of those can also be very quickly eleminated if taking the advice from those who now know and have spent enough of their own time and efforts to have finally been able to sort out most if not all of their own rifles likes and dislikes and the only honest road to be laid out for those like yourself who are very honestly asking what it takes for you to reach your own personal goals so you too will become more than able to achieve all of those goals you will very soon want to eagerly set for yourself. 

JLouis

md5200 wrote on Jun 14^th, 2018 at 8:47pm:

If you are shooting eggs at 300 yards and winning, maybe you should advise us? 

md, if you hit the reply button, underneath the dialog box and just under all the "smilies" you'll find an empty box that says "Browse" at the right end.  If you click "Browse", you can search your computer for the image you want to attach then double click the image.

Regards, Joe