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Do you mean a tube gun chassis?
While I've seen a few prone sling guys shoot them I've never been overly impressed with them. And I built one in .308win... 😉

yep some of us call them a rail rifle and i don`t really like these rail rifles either, for looks they are ugly but they are accurate . mine is a red Marine version by Ruger.

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I bought the Competition Machine single shot, shot it in a prone match with the standard serrated butt plate. My shoulder looked like some beat me up with a meat tenderizer. So I made a new butt plate and used a flip-flop for a recoil pad. I've thought about getting the repeater grip assembly and spinning up a barrel in a queer-more cartridge...
I'm not sure the ergonomic are compatible for shooting from a bench.

I have two of the Eliseo R1s (Competition Machine) for prone shooting and love them. One in .308 and the other in .284. For me, the low bore line really mitigates the recoil compared to the conventional stocks even with the standard butt plate. Went thru over 300 rounds of .308 in the 5 days of shooting at SWN with comfort. Wouldn't do it without a shooting coat though.

i put plates on my rail rifle for bench shooting and it has a brake on it to ,but its still ugly as heck .

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About fifty years ago, I used to attend turkey shoots in our area. Many were fired at arbitrary distances and from a picnic table. I was a pretty good shot and had some good rifles, so I won my share. One time, I went to a shoot at a remote community. I figured I didn't want to be over equipped to shoot against a bunch of hillbillies, so I just took my 30/06 rifle, which shot pretty good but was far from my first choice. I pulled in and put down my money, and waited for my turn to shoot. The first shooter was called and this rangy, bearded guy, wearing his black Dickies and a flannel shirt under the red suspenders, walked up and sat down with a stainless barreled, glass-stocked, Shilen DGA, and put one about 1/4 from center. Looked good, but the next guy, with a similar rifle, beat it handily. I shot all day and had nothing to show for but a lighter wallet. From that day forward, I might bring a pretty common hunting rifle but I always had a 40X LV rifle in the trunk, just in case. Don't see shoots like this anymore, and it's kind of a shame. GD

We shoot a similar event at my club. We don’t have classes, the rules state .30 and smaller and no flat bottom stocks. Rests, scopes open to all. The most successful winner has been a stock savage 6br with a nightforce. We shoot 5 shots for score at 50 yards offhand, 100, 200, 300 yards. The match is won at 50 and 100, then lost at 2 and 3. The wind wreaks havoc the further you go out as the range is along a wooded property and we get a swirl. I’m not much for bench shooting, so I shoot prone off a Harris.

Side note. We also bet separately $1 per yard line, highest score wins the yard line and ties are settled by group size.