Anyone shooting M52's in Competition

[slamfire]

I have one with a decent trigger. Shoots fine. But I am the only one at the local small bore matches who has shot one. The serious shooters are all using Anschutz.

Any serious shooters still using a M52?

[plastrr385]

I think a couple people up here shoot them. We have one guy that does actually him and his son both(they share the gun). I think 2 of the kids shoot them with iron sights.

[Bill D]

I have one with a decent trigger. Shoots fine. But I am the only one at the local small bore matches who has shot one. The serious shooters are all using Anschutz.

Any serious shooters still using a M52?

I shot a smallbore prone league a few years ago. I, too, was the only one useing a 52. All others shot Anshutz. And they shot better than I did for the most part.

Bill D

[bd1]

Seems like one of the prone matches at Perry was won by a guy with a 52-something three or four years ago. You do still see 'em in prone and in rimfire benchrest. Smallbore is all about shooter technique and ammo selection. There's no reason a highly tuned 52 C, D, or E can't be competitive against anything else in the right shooter's hands. But with today's games being such an expensive equipment proposition to begin with, the teams with the hot young eyes figure why fool around. Anschutz's products have the support while just finding somebody still around who can rebarrel a 52 is a daunting challenge.

[plastrr385]

I just moved from shooting an H&R M12(A Win. 52 clone) to an Anscutz 1413 this year.

[Hip's Ax]

Still plenty of 52's being shot in prone. When comparing full up custom prone guns the Anschutz, Winchester 52 and Remington 37 plus some Morgans are still all over the firing line (at least in PA) and all are at the same high level of competition. The brand of receiver is irrelevant. However, if you walk the firing line at a prone match and do a head count you will likely find more Anschutz than anything else. A Walther or two could be there as well.

When comparing factory guns the adjustments aren't there on anything but the Anschutz.

For position 99% of the rifles you’ll see are Anschutz, you’ll also see Walther and Feinwerkbau but you do see Remington and Winchester as well. The guys shooting the Remingtons or Winchesters are usually either new guys using club DCM equipment or guys who only dabble in smallbore in the high power off season.

These are nothing more than my observations

[Hip's Ax]

Seems like one of the prone matches at Perry was won by a guy with a 52-something three or four years ago. You do still see 'em in prone and in rimfire benchrest. Smallbore is all about shooter technique and ammo selection. There's no reason a highly tuned 52 C, D, or E can't be competitive against anything else in the right shooter's hands. But with today's games being such an expensive equipment proposition to begin with, the teams with the hot young eyes figure why fool around. Anschutz's products have the support while just finding somebody still around who can rebarrel a 52 is a daunting challenge.

That was likely my buddy Bill Neff. He won the scope aggregate in 2005(?) with his Winchester 52E Kenyon/Sitman prone gun.

Dave Cramer came in third last year or the year before with his Winchester 52E custom.

[ultramag44]

Seems like one of the prone matches at Perry was won by a guy with a 52-something three or four years ago. You do still see 'em in prone and in rimfire benchrest. Smallbore is all about shooter technique and ammo selection. There's no reason a highly tuned 52 C, D, or E can't be competitive against anything else in the right shooter's hands.

I shoot & win w/ (built in the 70's by Findely / Kenyon / Chapman) a 52D in local benchrest. Sightron 36X Big Sky

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q228/ultramag44/100_1868.jpg

Or, if i want to go factory stock: 52D w/ 24X Unertl.

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q228/ultramag44/52DUnertlRView.jpg

Or, if you want to make 'em drool....a 52E w/ the Lyman 20X LWBR scope that was mounted when the rifle was new in 1973 (mounted by original owner).

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q228/ultramag44/100_1472.jpg

52E 5-Shot group, 50 yards, Wolf Match Extra. Darn W. Texas wind had to push that one shot to the left...
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q228/ultramag44/100_1469.jpg

[Too Much Coffee]

We shoot 100 yd. rimfire benchrest. I know of four stock 52D's that can shoot cleans with right: ammo, conditions and the jerk behind the trigger. Three of these were CMP rifles!