Round 1 F-Class League                                                                                                                                  ...

It was around 3:00pm as I set up on the firing line

  I have only being shooting for 15 years approx., mainly foxing under the lamp. I stalk deer, shoot bunnies, foxes and of course targets.   I've been a member of Midlands National Shooting Centre of Ireland (MNSCI) for the last 13 years and have shot and used many calibres of rifle in that time. Most of my shooting was out to 300 yards with 22 hornet's, 223's, 6.5's, 243's and 308's. Then I came across an Accuracy International AE in .308 for sale at a great price. (A review of this rifle shall be available soon). So even though funds were tight I went for it... boy oh boy was I a happy bunny. The rifle came with a S&B 2.5-10X56 zenith riflescope on it, although a great scope, it was a little under powered for what I wanted... Long Range shooting...which I had always yearned to try. The Zenith went up for sale and it wasn't long before that was gone and I had a wad of money in my hand. I now needed to replace it with something with more mag.   The answer came...