This was an April Fool's joke. If you are reloading for real then you usually clean out the old primer compound with a solvent like acetone.

Sper Talking Timer amzn.to/3KZOvpq amzn.to/45Ly2Pa Prices vary from $25-$35 I have a video about it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j16ZlWiBedCZi8k

@@CopperStarPrecision do u push the botten i dont see u activate the timer?

I have the timer attached with Velcro on the top of my scope. I start the stage by holding the rifle by the scope and press the start button with my thumb. I have the timer set to 2 seconds less than the stage time just in case my reaction is slow. At about the 5:57 mark in this video you can kind of see my thumb press the button and hear a beep which is me starting the timer.

I really did like mine. I think it has a ton of features that make it a great choice for the sport. If things work out in the near future my Ruger will make a return in a big way. Stay tuned!

@@CopperStarPrecision Liljia? Hope so. Shaw shoots pretty well on the Ruger from what I’ve seen. Anxious to see someone with a Liljia

The Lilja looks very promising, but I did win a certificate for a Shilen barrel at Nationals and they make a prefit for the Ruger rimfire so I think I might give that a try. My CZ457 has a Shilen barrel and it hammers so hoping for similar performance.

@@CopperStarPrecision Shilen makes some badass barrels also.

It's the most popular NRL22 Base Class and PRS Rimfire Production Class rifle. It sucks paying over the MSRP of $849, but it's still a fantastic rifle.

Not to my knowledge. All competitions from NRL22/PRS Rimfire to Benchrest to Olympic Rifle and Pistol sports use 22LR.

Thanks! Hoping to represent Arizona well. Flying with firearms isn't bad at all if you're traveling between gun friendly states. The rules are pretty straightforward and easy to adhere to.

Yes it is. It's my base class rifle for this season. I have a build series on the channel which I will be adding more videos in the next weeks.

Paid full price for mine, but it was still cheaper than the oversize baggage fees I might have had to pay on the round trip flight.

New chassis, but same rifle. It's a Grey Birch. Has the advantage of a folding buttstock and is very light in the rear which makes for a very nice forward balance point without the use of excessive attached weights.

Match is this weekend and hope to have lots of content in the weeks to follow.

I had great success with mine, but for the latest set of rules I have switched to a CZ 457 which I also have videos about on my channel.

@@CopperStarPrecision interesting, I actually have the Ruger precision like yours but I’m on the verge of purchasing a CZ 457 Varmint MTR. Out the door I’m looking at about $1100 (I live in CA)

For airline travel ammo and rifle in the same case is okay according to the TSA, but you're right, traveling within certain states with rifle and ammo in the same case may be prohibited. Also, you wont catch me in California unless absolutely necessary haha.

I had great success with mine. However, I think more people lean towards offerings from CZ.

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Thank you! Make sure to introduce yourself. I'm on squad 11. I've been looking at the weather reports and it should make for a very interesting match. See you there!

Yeah, this one hammers, but I love all the iterative improvements you've been making for the CZ457 platform. Really impressive stuff! Gotta scrape together some $, but I'm definitely interested.

@@CopperStarPrecision I can donate to the cause lol

Well hard to argue with that. I feel like when it cools off a bit a trip up your way is in order to highlight all the awesome things you're working on.

Thanks! Yeah, not sure what happened on that close large target considering I hit the small one. Even my squad mates were surprised. The far target miss was just a bad wind call.

Precision is relative to the rules of the sport/competition. A hunter may only have to be as precise as the vital zone of an animal. When you want to shoot a 1/4" target at 50 yards off of an unstable barricade without wind flags or shooting jackets that sounds pretty precise to me. While benchrest and smallbore prone may warrant a higher level of precision it should be expected given the gear used in those disciplines.

@@CopperStarPrecision I wouldn't consider hunting a precision sport, not would I consider just hitting something at 50 yards precision. The video I watched about NRL seems to have a decent amount of specific gear: bipods, sandbags. Smallbore prone only requires a sling, and is much more precise than this NRL "plinking."

Cool, so just hitting a 0.25" steel target at 50 yards is plinking, but hitting a paper target with a 0.5" bull in ARA Benchrest with one-piece rests and wind flags or a 0.719" 10 ring with a shooting jacket, sling, and wind flags in smallbore prone competition is true precision. I guess there's no spectrum of precision, it's either precise or not. Got it.

@@CopperStarPrecision the x-ring on the A-51 50 yard prone target is 0.16 inches.

Right on!

Thanks!

Best of luck and welcome to the sport! If you haven't shot this style of competition before don't be discouraged by the initial learning curve. Do your best to build stable positions, find the targets, and break clean shots. Speed comes with time so don't worry if you time out on the stages. It's important to practice fundamentals first. Lastly, stay safe and have fun! Let me know how it goes.

Definitely a mixed bag of results. I struggled to build stable positions and timed out on 4 of the 5 stages which wasn't unexpected. I did feel like I understood the stages and only shot the wrong target once that I can remember. I also felt like my dope calls were pretty good so not all bad and I definitely learned a lot and had fun. Thanks for the encouragement and Ill for sure be looking out for next months video.

Sounds like it was an overall positive experience. I'm glad you had fun! Getting stable in awkward positions is a big part of the learning curve. If you're not shooting prone or some sort of modified prone position there will always be some wobble. With time the wobble will become smaller and smaller and you'll learn when to break your shot to have the best chance of impacting the target. I also attended a match today and did pretty well. I'll have that footage up in the next day or two and hopefully that will give you some ideas of how I tackle the stages. As always at the beginning of each month I will have strategy videos for that month's course of fire. Welcome to the sport!

Thank you! I have the Da'Rail weighted rail and added about 2 lbs. of copper to the front of it to get the balance perfect. Since I run the TriggerCam that's an additional pound on the back of the scope so I needed some extra weight in the front to account for that. Without the camera the rifle balances pretty well with just the weighted Arca rail.

Much appreciated

This video was published as an April Fools joke.

I agree. I definitely plan on doing testing in the near future, but I'm busy preparing for nationals at the moment. Some preliminary testing that I have done shows improvement in group size when I shim the bolt to tighten the headspace from its normal 0.0435 to the 0.0405-0.0395 range for Eley ammo which has a rim thickness of 0.039-0.038 I think there are a few tests to do. One would be to test ammo sorted by rim thickness for groups and SD/ES vs a random selection. This would most apply to bulk ammo like you suggest since most of the match ammo I have seen from Lapua and Eley has at most a 0.001 extreme spread in rim thickness. The other test that comes to mind is matching the rim thickness to the headspace of the rifle via bolt shims to see if there is an improvement. The issue, as you point out, is getting a large enough sample size to make the results statistically significant. I need to dust off my old statistics textbooks and design the experiment and then find a calm day or book an indoor range to do the testing.

@@CopperStarPrecision Right on, man. +1 on doing it indoors to isolate the effects of weather. Probably ought to chrono everything to isolate the effects of varying velocity, too... Looking forward to a video on this if you ever get around to it.

@@CopperStarPrecision Also, there's some redneck science claims I've heard from another channel ("STKO") and I'm curious if they hold any bearing among the competition crowd: 1) Humidity's effects on powder burn and chamber fouling have a larger effect on accuracy than any lot-to-lot variance would, and lot-tested ammo doesn't necessarily consistently perform the best in different humidity than what it was initially tested in. 2) The ratio of contact-bearing surface on the bullet to the width of the grooves in rifling has the largest effect on a given barrel's ammo preference (kzbin.info/www/bejne/nH-mqoJ5lryiZpI). Not really seeing these mentioned anywhere outside his channel, and his process isn't exactly scientific :) Was wondering if there's any merit to either of these.

I don't think it has been officially discontinued, but you can't buy it direct from Bushnell anymore. EuroOptic is a very reputable store for scopes and other things. Looks like it is $369.99 on Amazon (non-illuminated), but if you go to EuroOptic directly it is $299.99. ScopeList also has it for the $300 price.

Thank you for the response! Is this still the best choice in the $500 or less price range? Starting NRL22 on a budget.

I think so, it's what I'm using on my Base Class rifle for NRL22. With everything getting more expensive it's tough to find a quality scope with all of the features that are good in competition. Other budget options that I see other people use are Arken scopes, but I haven't used them personally. Either the SJ-4J or the EP5 are under $500 after their 25% coupon code.

I went with the one from Pete's Pillars. Yes, still competing in Open and will use my Open rifle for Nationals later this month. Looking to qualify for next year's Nationals in both Open and Base.

I've been there. The only way to go from the bottom is up! At the end of the day this is an acquired skill and it takes time and practice to learn the ins and outs of the game. As long as you're staying safe and learning stick with it! If there's anything I can help with let me know.

Thank you! Very happy with my performance. I do think the match pro is great value for ~$300 street price. I wasn't aware of the reticle change, but maybe you have the OG match pro which I think had a zero stop. This one doesn't. The clicks are good, but you might be hearing them a bit louder than they are in person because they are being picked up by the microphone on the TriggerCam. Still very tactile though.

@@CopperStarPrecision Sub $300?? That’s a steal for a .22 setup. I think I paid close to $550 for mine. I no longer use it but have kept it in the rings for backup. I put a Gen 2 match Pro on the current 457 build and for a .22 and the money, it is awesome. I can’t understand how they offer the same glass and better features than the Elite series for so much less $. Once I heal up from surgery, I’ll put up a video of the Gen 2.

​@@CopperStarPrecision the reticle has changed. There was no numbers on the vertical part until you get to 3 mils and a break in the line between 2 and 2.5 mils both vertical and horizontal.

Thanks, and sorry I didn't get to your question earlier. Kind of hard to give examples without having a real course description like this. Everyone has their own system as well, but this is what made sense to me. I saw some other people struggling with their DOPE cards and they also liked my format.

Haha! Yeah, that was a total lapse in judgement on my part. Sad thing is that every other person on the squad used the bipod and did very well on the stage. I guess they saw me and thought "well, that's not the way to do it".

When you shoot rooftops you gotta flip the hat backwards. It tightens up your SD's by 4-5fps. Lolz!

This is not the ED version. It is the regular match pro which has an MSRP of 349.99 for non-illuminated or 399.99 for the illuminated version as currently listed on Bushnell's website. Not sure where you're seeing $679.

Most NRL22 courses of fire only have one prone stage so a simple bipod attachment point is more than sufficient. The advantage of the full arca rail is if you want to shift the bipod around or use plates with bags attached. All of that isn't necessary when you're just starting out. Having a balanced rifle is going to do way more for your stability on barricades so I would lean in that direction. M-Lok weights are stupid expensive for what they are so if you are mechanically inclined and have access to a decent drill/drill press and a high-quality drill bit that can cut metal you can buy copper or brass bar stock off of amazon. Simply drill holes and add M-Lok hardware (you will need to get longer screws from the hardware store). A 1"x6" bar of copper or brass that is 3/8" thick should weigh around 11oz which is equivalent to a pair of MDT chassis weights. The MDT wights cost $60 and for about $25-$30 in materials and hardware you can make your own. M LOK Nuts: amzn.to/3RbNy0t Copper Bar: amzn.to/4c6blqV Brass Bar: amzn.to/3xavo8u In the video I used two sets of MDT weights, but for half the price you can put a copper or brass bar on each side and get the same effect and it will cost you about 50% of what the name brand weights cost. Hope that helps.

@@CopperStarPrecision absolutely does and thanks for the quick reply. I asked a similar question in a rpr forum on Facebook and all the responses were how terrible the rpr is and I shouldn't even consider it which was surprising considering the name of the forum.

Glad to help. While the RPRF isn't the most popular rifle in the NRL22 scene it has a lot of useful features for competition and is extremely reliable.

Pete's Pillars

While CZ says you shouldn't dry fire the rifle, I haven't found it to be a major issue. The firing pin is stronger in the 457 vs the older models. Furthermore, the firing pin itself has a stop built in where the firing pin stops on the pin that is used to hold the rear shroud/firing pin spring together. This modified firing pin has the part that might contact the edge of the chamber removed so it should be even less prone to peening the barrel face.

@@CopperStarPrecision I have had firing pins break (albeit not CZ) because of the firing pin being stopped by the shroud pin . The CZ pin is pretty robust, so I'd think risk would be small. Nonetheless, I was surprised when my ruger firing pin broke in half at this point of contact . On top of that , Ruger claimed it was safe to dry fire. Now here's where it matters. IF the firing pin breaks at this point, the rifle may still fire, but the firing pin will not retract and ejection problems occur. However , now the firing pin has no stop. If you unknowingly dry fire with the pin broken , It will peen the barrel. YMMV.

Both are from Pete's Pillars

Lot testing will always be key, but matching the headspace to rim thickness can usually give you a better starting point for a specific brand of ammo. My MTR headspace is 43-43.5 thou and it likes SK/Lapua which makes sense. I've never found any Eley ammo that shoots well since the rim thickness is closer to 39 thou. If I wanted to shoot Eley I would need to shim the bolt for tighter headspace.