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morning all,

I have been reading a few posts on here lately, and some have mentioned rifles having or not having a prone stock, I did not realise there was a difference?

I will be looking to buy soon, so what do I need to look for, as a prone target shooter?

58 views and no replies? do I assume that there is not a difference?

sorry if it a bit of a 'newbie' question.

Sorry mate I missed this one sign01

Prone stocks are designed so they can be fired using the standard prone position with the forend in the hand etc, other stock profiles for F-Class/Benchrest etc will have wide forend designed to go on rests

Normally any target rifle should always be in a prone stock

HTH
Alan

Also the butt height will be different on a prone to off hand rifle.

Missed this one too - don't log on every evening...

Like Alan said, the main diference is with the fore-end - generally longer, chunkier and heavier than on a sporting rifle. There is usually a rail on the underside for fitting a handstop...so designed for prone shooting with a sling.

If you look on the 'Fultons of Bisley' website there's some good pictures of various typical target rifles.

I think the distinction arises from the world of smallbore. Anschutz used to sell the same action in three different stocks: Match 54 (prone) which had a long forened with the underside of the stock parallel to and as close as possible to the barrel; Standard Rifle (1417/18/19/), which had a sloped forend and was intended to be used in the Womens' UIT Match (3-positional but without any attachments - the poor little dears apparently lack the strngth to manage a proper 3-P rifle according to UIT / ISSF (spit)); and Supermatch which was a Match 54 with a heavy stock and barrel, adjustable this that and the other including extending palm rest and hooked buttplate that moved through the full range needed for PSK. Hence a "prone" rifle was one which more or less followed the model of the M54.

Iain

Hers some pics of my Anschutz 54 with the different stock options I have or had for it .

Prone stock



Position stock
note the deeper area around the trigger guard for the left hand support



My bench rest stock which I converted from the position stock .
and a BRNO Sporter stock


Dave

Dave 101 wrote:Hers some pics of my Anschutz 54 with the different stock options I have or had for it .

Prone stock



Position stock
note the deeper area around the trigger guard for the left hand support



My bench rest stock which I converted from the position stock .
and a BRNO Sporter stock


Dave

Excellent Post Dave, that illustrates perfectly :goodjob:

Alan

That is great, thanks everyone. It had not occurred to me that the difference would be the fore-end, I had thought that the butt would be different or something.

all.