Benchrest
As the name suggests benchresting involves sitting at a bench with the front of the rifle supported on a rest and the butt supported in the shoulder. It is normally shot with telescopic sights at either 25 yards indoors or 50 yards outdoors. Either rimfire or air rifles can be used at 25 yards but at 50 yards bullets are really required.
Some shooters regard bench resting as a soft option to match shooting but in fact it requires just as much skill. The targets are very small, the 10 ring at 25 yards is just 2mm in diameter and 3mm at 50 yards, so it is very much the ultimate in precision shooting requiring very good breath and trigger control. Now gaining much more in popularity to the extent that the makers of high end match rifles are now producing bench rest versions of their top models.
