Talk:Benchrest rifle

I've created this page using text from the benchrest shooting page, removing the redirect to Railgun. It needs more detail on the construction, use, and popularity Chalky (talk) 09:58, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

You are kidding right? Redirect to railgun should stay, I've never even heard of this before... I've sure most people searching for rail guns are referring to railgun the electromagnetically power gun, not some backyard toy. Shardakar (talk) 11:52, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

No comment on the redirection, but the "backyard toy" description is erroneous. Major ammunition & ammunition component manufacturing companies use "rail guns" as testing platforms. I have visited the one at the new Sierra Bullet plant in Missouri, U.S.A., but all major ammunition manufactures have an indoor test facility, and use return-to-battery rifles for a host of purposes.

The benchrest entry itself is in need of a rewrite. Oddly, there are not that many formal benchrest shooters worldwide, probably less less than 5,000 (membership in the National Benchrest Shooters Association and International Benchrest Shooters association is about 1,500 for each organization).

What is odd is that benchrest is, in the popular mind, considered to represent the pinnacle of rifle performance in terms of accuracy. Accordingly, techniques developed in benchrest competition do make their way into factory manufactured rifles. User:Charles Ellertson — Preceding unsigned comment added by Charles ellertson (talk • contribs) 03:03, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

The german textcontentabout rail-guns is much better — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.173.100.168 (talk) 06:13, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

We should do a search of media references extent before the recent popular articles on the magnetic gun. I suspect such a search would result in the term rail gun refering to a gun pulled by a train, or to this article about fixed rifle hand guns. Alternatively, we could do a telephone survey of adults over, say, twenty. Probably the magnetic gun was named after the train-pulled gun. Lets do a section in the magnetic gun article about the naming of that gun.Mac 23:40, 23 March 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tommcnabb (talk • contribs)

Page review
I have added the Wikiproject Firearms template, rating this as a stub. There are significant problems with this article - namely that the content does not really fit the title. Presenting Return-To-Battery rifles/"railguns" as "Benchrest Rifles" is inappropriate and misleading when they are in fact a small subset of such. If you walk into a firearms dealer more or less anywhere in the world and enquire after a "Benchrest Rifle", they will be pointing you towards conventional rifles in BR stocks, such as Anschutz BR50s or custom-builds. Unlimited-Class RTBs are a specialist subsection of Benchrest rifles and deserve a place in the broader article - which needs to reflect that. This article appears to be putting the cart before the horse and focussing on one subsection of the topic to the exclusion of all else. If the intention is to have an article entirely about RTB rifles and/or bench-clamped test rigs, then the title should be something along the lines of "Return-To-Battery Rifles" or "Firearm testing systems" (but that may struggle per WP:Notability) Hemmers (talk) 10:59, 28 March 2023 (UTC)