The eleventh Extreme Benchrest event has now come and gone. As always, it saw some spectacular shooting, combined with outstanding organization, dedication and prefessionalism by the whole Airguns of Arizona team.
EBR remains THE outstanding airgun shooting event of the season. Thanks to all the AoA folk who make this possible!
So – if you weren’t there (and even if you were), here’s a round-up of the 2022 event…
The overall winner was Jeffrey Hernandez – that’s him looking slightly “shell shocked” in our heading photograph above.
Jeffery placed first in the prestige 100 Yards Benchrest competition in Pro Class with a score of 229 7X. Congratulations to him for some outstanding shooting!!!
In the photograph at top, Jeffrey takes center stage in the top row with Nikolai Boldov (left) who placed second with 225 4X while Mike Bricker (right) was third in Pro Class with a score of 216 1X.
Below, Lauren Parsons was shooting a Daystate Red Wolf with this very stylish red anodized PRS chassis stock and matching 0dB moderator.
Competitors came from around the world to shoot at EBR. I personally spoke to shooters from Lebanon, Denmark, Great Britain, Russia, Mexico, Peru, Spain and more.
Representing the international contingent, we see Soren Drost from Denmark, below. Thanks also to all those who took so much time and effort to travel to Arizona for the event!
The Action Armour Steel Scramble was a new Course of Fire for 2022’s EBR. This was an exciting test of versatility, accuracy and speed, with shooting from a variety of positions.
The winner was Justin Welch (center), with Dave Thornton (left) second and Pete Papathemetrios third. Congratulations to all!
The Speed Silhouette is another exciting competition, with some real speed shooting taking place. Pro Class winner Tom Adams is always amazing to watch as he loads, aims and fires, seemingly all at the same time.
That’s Tom in action, below. If you look closely, you can see that he has modified the cocking lever of his Daystate Red Wolf for faster operation.
Below, another highly-successful Daystate Wolf Pack shooter – John Bagakis – has also modified his Red Wolf for rapid fire use in Speed Silhouette competition.
For Extreme Benchrest 2022, KalibrGun sponsored the very popular Extreme Field Target competition.
This is another tough competition with flat, long-range shooting being a major requirement from the competitor’s air rifle
And watch out for the cacti!!!
The big bore competition is a class that’s growing steadily, year-on-year. Below we see Tom Costan, owner of American Air Arms, competing with one of his own very fine airguns
And – of course – all the competitors receive a “Goodie Bag”! The Extreme Benchrest 2022 bag contained a huge amount of useful stuff, as we can see below…
See you at Extreme Benchrest 2023!!!
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