The Norwegian Benchrest Shooting Association, NorwegianNorges Benkeskytterforbund (NBSF), is the Norwegian association for benchrest shooting under the World Benchrest Shooting Federation (WBSF), as well as the long range disciplines 500 UNL and F-Class. The organization was founded in 1996 [1] [2]
Benchrest shooting is a shooting sport discipline in which high-precision rifles are shot at paper targets. The rifles ride on a front and rear rest sitting on a table or bench, hence the name "benchrest". The shooter simply sits at the bench, in distinction to other shooting disciplines, where the shooter holds and aims the rifle without the benefit of a rest. The post-Civil War era "double rest" rifles were one early form of "benchrest" rifles.
The World Benchrest Shooting Federation (WBSF) is the international governing body for benchrest shooting, with disciplines for both centerfire and rimfire ammunition. WBSF was formed in 2001.
The International Confederation of Fullbore Rifle Associations (ICFRA) is the international association for the fullbore target rifle shooting sports of Palma 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. F-Class often shoot concurrently with the world's long-range Palma shooters and uses the same targets, except that the F-Class target has an extra half diameter inner ring. ICFRA seeks to standardize the competition rules for Palma and F-Class around the world. In competitions, wind reading skills are important, and in order to hit their targets competitors must sense wind direction and speed, and adjust their sights accordingly by applying knowledge and experience about wind drift's effect on the bullet. The World Long-Range Rifle Team Championships is hosted every four years, where the winner is awarded the Palma trophy.
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- Shooting disciplines
- See also
- Other shooting sport organizations in Norway
- References
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While most benchrest matches in Norway and the rest of the world are held at 100 and 200 meters [3] , 500 m benchrest matches are a unique Norwegian benchrest discipline which has been considered as a crossover discipline between benchrest and long range shooting. [4] The first 500 m benchrest event in Norway was conducted in March 2007. [5]
Long range shooting is a collective term for shooting disciplines where the shooter has to engage targets at such long distances that he has to calculate ballistics, especially in regards to wind. While shooting at shorter or "regular" ranges, one usually has to adjust the sights only in regards to gravity but, when the range is extended, wind drift will be the first factor affecting precision to the extent that it must be taken into account. Some would argue that long range shooting starts where assessment of wind, distance, and various atmospheric conditions are equally important for the results as pure shooting skills - meaning that even if one conducts a technically perfect shot, the shooter will miss the target because of incorrect calculations, or forgetting to take some element into consideration. It is widely accepted within interdisciplinary circles that long range means the target is more than 600 meters away, while extreme long range is generally accepted as when the target distance is more than 1000 meters away from the shooter.
The long range discipline F-Class shooting was added as a discipline in 2011, [6] and the first Norwegian national F-Class championship was held in 2017. [7] [8]
Formerly NBSF had a members magazine called Benkeskytteren (The Benchrest Shooter). [9]
