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2. Sandbag - Wikipedia

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   A sandbag or dirtbag is a bag or sack made of hessian ... In addition, sandbags are often used when shooting a long gun, specifically a rifle or sniper rifle, from a ...

3. International Confederation of Fullbore Rifle Associations

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   The International Confederation of Fullbore Rifle Associations (ICFRA) is the international association for the fullbore rifle shooting sports of target rifle ('TR') (called 'Palma' rifle in the US) and F-Class, which are long range competitions shot at distances between 300 and 900 meters or 300 to 1,000 yards depending on the range. [1]

4. Benchrest shooting - Wikipedia

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   The stocks of benchrest rifles are designed to rest on the sandbags. With short-range rifles and the lower-recoiling long-range rifles, many competitors shoot "free recoil," where the rifle is not touched at all, save for the finger on the trigger. The sandbags provide all the support.

5. Long range shooting - Wikipedia

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   It is widely accepted within interdisciplinary circles that for a standard rifle firing full-powered cartridges (e.g. .308 Winchester), "long range" means the target is more than 600 m (660 yd) away, [citation needed], while "extreme long range" is generally accepted as when the target distance is more than 1,000 m (1,100 yd) away from the shooter.

6. Fullbore target rifle - Wikipedia

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   F-class is a recent variant of fullbore target rifle which permits optical telescopic sights and shooting rests such as a pedestal rest or a bipod at the front of the rifle and a tightly packed sandbag at the rear of the rifle. Competitions are fired at distances from 300 to 1000 yards.

7. Precision Rifle Series - Wikipedia

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   Long range sniper-style rifle matches at various ranges from unconventional shooting positions became popular in the 1990s.PRS rules established in 2012 stipulated rifles used by competing shooters must fire bullets with a diameter not greater than 7.82 millimetres (0.308 in) at muzzle velocities not greater than 980 m/s (3,200 ft/s).