2007.03.23
Mark Wahlberg's got nuthin' on this shooter
I spent a couple hours this morning at the range with benchrest shooter Mark Schronce of Pulaski, whom I'm doing a feature on for The Roanoke Times. (For pictures of him you'll have to wait for the article.)
Schronce is getting ready for the season and was getting his rifles zeroed. As I'd hoped he was more than willing to let me (and our photographer, Kyle Green) pop off a few rounds with this beauty, the creation of local gunsmith Richard Franklin.
We were shooting at 100 yards -- point blank in Schronce's terms. It was windy but I still put all three shots in about a half-inch group.
With this gun (chambered for 6mmBRX cartridge), Schronce set an International Benchrest Shooters 600-yard record last year with a five-shot group at less than 2 inches. I saw the target and it actually included something of a flyer, a single shot well out from the others, which were in about a 1-inch group.
That is just sick, and I mean that as a compliment.
