Why you better run the rifle hard if you are going to use it for PRS type games. Fancy and pricey but doesn't feed, you are done....
Jerry
Indeed. Run hard or not, a rifle that doesn't feed is never good.
For the general reader, in PRS-style games, shooters will often need to be able to shoot very quickly, even though this means utmost precision is compromised. Shooting from a variety of positions, the goal is to hit a steel target from 50 to 300 yards. The game requires speed more than pinpoint accuracy, which of course becomes increasingly impossible with .22LR the further the target. In PRS .22LR, a hit is a hit regardless if it strikes the middle of the steel plate or closer to it's edge. Therefore a repeater with a magazine is desirable if not required. Of course the ammo must be fed reliably or all is for naught.
In other kinds of shooting repeatable pinpoint accuracy is desired or required. A lack of utmost precision is itself compromising. Therefore shooters will wish to pace themselves accordingly and a single shot rifle (or a repeater with a single shot adapter) is not a disadvantage. In fact, slow and deliberate is an advantage and is what's required for pinpoint accuracy. Equally or perhaps more important, single shot loading ensures that the round enters the chamber cleanly each and every time. It eliminates the possiblity of a bullet being nicked or shaved during loading as is possible when loading from a magazine. A bullet that is not pristine may not be capable of pinpoint accuracy.
In any case, repeaters are unsuitable or impractical for those rifles that are designed for utmost precision. When utmost precision is the goal, dedicated rifles use the tightest match chambers. Tighter chamber dimensions contribute significantly to pinpoint accuracy. It's undesirable to use repeaters because of the additional challenge of loading cleanly and reliably into those tight chambers from a magazine and/or extracting live rounds that need to come out. Single shot .22LR rifles are better suited than repeaters to having the tightest match chambers. In addition,.22LR BR builders often say the single shot receivers are superior to repeater receivers for utmost accuracy because they are made stiffer by their very design.
This is not to say that repeaters can't have match-like chambers. But "match" chambers are not all the same. Some are tighter than others. To illustrate with an example, the new Vudoo BR rifle that's purposefully designed for benchrest shooting is a single shot with a chamber that has smaller, tighter dimensions than the Vudoo repeater (itself a pricey rifle and possibly fancy too), which is well-suited for PRS-style competition in large part
because it's a repeater characterized by good accuracy. Having the popular Remington 700 footprint and a certain tactical appeal probably helps too.
In general, the sporting chambers found on the average sporter rifle will have more generous chamber dimensions than most dedicated benchrest rifles and even match rifles used in 3P (Olympic-style) shooting -- all of which are single shot. More generous dimensions allow for easier loading (and more certain of unloading live rounds) of all varieties of .22LR ammo, the least expensive of which are often of inconsistent dimensions. On the other hand, bulk .22LR ammo, which is less consistent in its dimensions, loads inconsistently in match chambers.
So to sum up, a repeater for PRS, a single shot for utmost precision.
