We had one where the MD had us shoot from under a barricade. No way to see through the scope without laying the rifle on it's side. Even with a HP rifle, it messes up your zeroes enough at 200 yds to make a hit near impossible without correcting in some way. Great fun.

What is a FOG?   

So much I don't unnerstand..... 

It would probably be a good game / program for the public to go out and to enjoy. 
But where would an extremely successful competitive shooter fit in other than just to provide some guidance?

Forgive me if I was wrong as I had thought it was just a fun and open to public fun shoot. For the none competitive and experienced shooting group. And if it were such a match it would be one I would not shoot at but would be more than willing to help out at. And to even provide a rifle and the ammunition for someone without to also be able to use. 
This is something that I always did for multiple years that was also open to the public. At our once yearly Turkey Shoots that I also ran for four years. I also got my ass chewed more than once because everyone I helped took a Turkey and three Chicken's home and the max one could win at the 200 yard bench event. The club was actually loosing money by all of those who were being successful with my help and shooting my breech seating 32-40 rifle. The target was a 1 inch lifesaver hanging on monofilament fishing line on a target frame and without any backer. 
Chicken's were three shots for a Dollar and Turkey's were three shots for five. Everyone who shot my rifle would easily go home with all four and most with only having to buy but one ticket. Several would ask will you be here next year and would come back to shoot my rifle. The intent was in trying to get these folks interested in joining our Schuetzen group and not a one of them actually did. They would be trying to win using their hunting or varmint rifles and really did not have a chance of winning but by luck. The offhand target was a 6 inch ceramic tile and forming hung to form a diamond. Several of the same folks would also win the four while also shooting my breech seating rifle and really had a good time.

Probably not as challenging as to put 10 shots into an 11/2 25 ring at 200 yards or a 3/4 ring of an inch at 100 yards. But that is just me and being able to hit a steel dinger all though it is probably fun it was also not what Pope and others made these barrels and rifles to actually do.

JLouis wrote on Jan 1^st, 2022 at 9:33pm:


I would suggest that “Pope and others” did not make their barrels and rifles to be shot as bench rest rifles either.

westerner wrote on Jan 2^nd, 2022 at 1:02am:


My argument would be percentages, and what seems to be the  assertion that I was responding to. That the purest or most popular form of shooting at a Schuetzen park or match was benchrest in the day.

There was a fair amount of money to be made for the the top shooters of the day. What was the percentage of prize money offered at the average Schuetzenfest, for the top BR score?

No doubt that there was competition shooting from the bench with highly specialized equipment. This was likely started as a way to remove shooter error and promote the barrel maker or gunsmith. Pope’s accuracy promises were based on shooting from a machine rest for a reason.

I think this quote sums up this argument perfectly. If true, this type of shooting has nothing to do with shooting skills, and everything to do with equipment. Multiple people being able to hit a lifesaver at 200 yards on the first trigger pull with a 32-40, multiple years in a row, is an unbelievably accurate setup.

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Compare that with the type of shooting skills required in the 22 shoots described in this thread. Multiple targets at random distances, from multiple positions, scored as hit or miss, do or don’t in the allotted time.

Personally I think the testing of shooting skills vs best equipment, when compared the the accounts of the typical Schuetzenfest I have read, shooting from the bench is arguably less traditional.

Agree Marlinguy. These guys doing this long range 22 precision stuff is definitely a challenge.The point of my post was they think are the only people that have shot 22 is at long range. And I think they just underestimate the accuracy of our single shots. It's all new to these guys and they're having a bunch of fun.
Every shooting discipline has its own set of challenges. I hope it didn't seem like I was putting it down.