Silver and Gold on BR50 2010 Nationals

Shooter: P. Mateus. Photo by L. Agria

... just finished a one day "marathon" at the Benchrest 50 (BR50) .22 LR Nationals (Jamor, Oeiras, Portugal, Sep. 11th 2010) where I got the "Silver" as 2nd place overall on the "Heavy Varmint" class and "Gold" as 1st place by teams on the same class. The "kit" used was a "custom" Anschütz 1903 single shot .22 LR rifle, with a Leupold 45x45 Competition scope over Sportmatch UK mounts using Lapua Center-X 40 grains ammo. The kit was used on top of a Varide Cicognani Adjustable Rest (Model 3). More details  and photos on this kit, nicknamed "Viriato", available here.

On the morning match, with a nice soft shadow-ish light and no wind, I scored 245 / 250 with 14 / 25 X (broke my personal match record - and with a score that granted me the honorific official title of "Master Shooter"  - in Portuguese: "Mestre Atirador" - by the Portuguese Shooting Federation). On the afternoon match, with some mild heat mirage (31 Celsius) and occasional medium strengh cross wind,  I scored 239 / 250 with 7 / 25 X.

BR50 Heavy Varmint Class , .22 LR
Morning match target - Score of 245 / 250 with 14 / 25 X
Jamor, Portugal, 11 Sep 2010, circa 10h30

BR50 Heavy Varmint Class , .22 LR
Afternoon match target - Score of 239 / 250 with 7 / 25 X
Jamor, Portugal, 11 Sep 2010, circa 16h00

The CPTPP team, "Heavy Varmint" class, composed by P. Mateus (2nd place overall), A. Ramos (1st place overall) and P. André (3rd place overall) took the 3 podium positions and won the 1st place on the 2010 Nationals - taking the "Gold" home.

CPTPP Team, left to right: P. Mateus, A. Ramos and P. André.

Photo by F. Neto

BR50 - Heavy Varmint, 2010 Nationals - Overall Scores

An extended +150 photo gallery can be found here and a 4 min HD video can be found here.