What The Pros Use: Best Rifle Chassis & Stocks

Within the precision rifle world, nothing has superior extra over the previous 10 years than rifle shares and chassis! That’s why it’s so fascinating to see what the shooters on the very high of the nationwide rankings within the Precision Rifle Sequence (PRS) selected to maximise their odds of getting hits on course at lengthy vary.

I just lately surveyed the top-ranked shooters in each the PRS to be taught what gear they’re operating in long-range rifle matches. This information represents 200 of one of the best precision rifle shooters within the nation. This submit will give attention to what they selected for his or her rifle inventory or chassis. (View different What The Professionals Use articles)

9 years in the past, once I surveyed the highest PRS shooters, 67% had been operating Manners, McMillan, or Accuracy Worldwide (see the info). Just one of these corporations has any shooters represented among the many execs this yr! That’s as a result of the market has been disrupted by innovators like Masterpiece Arms, MDT, and Basis Shares, who’ve launched compelling merchandise which can be feature-packed and very customizable.

Let’s dive into the info!

Rifle Inventory vs Chassis

First, let’s check out what number of of those high PRS rivals are operating a inventory or chassis. The precise definition of what makes one thing a chassis or a inventory is debatable. I nearly went with a really technical definition – however we’ll take the easy view {that a} chassis is primarily constructed from steel (like MPA and MDT chassis), and shares are constructed from a composite materials and look and deal with extra like conventional rifles (like Basis and Manners shares).

On the chart above, the varied colours signify the place a shooter landed when it comes to season rank within the PRS. For instance, black signifies shooters who completed within the high 10, the darkest blue is individuals who completed 11-25, and the lighter the blue, the additional out they completed in total standings. The chart legend itemizes the ranks every shade represents, however mainly, the darker the colour, the upper the shooter’s total rating.

67% of those top-ranked shooters selected to run a chassis, and 33% selected to run a inventory. Nonetheless, you may see there have been shooters within the high 10 utilizing each chassis and shares. 6 of the highest 10 used a chassis, and 4 used a inventory.

There was a development among the many high PRS shooters in direction of chassis for a number of years. Earlier than 2015, a lot of the high shooters had been utilizing shares. By 2018, the PRS high shooters had been pretty balanced (54% chassis vs 46% inventory, see the info). Right this moment, most are utilizing chassis. Some shooters favor the texture of a standard inventory, and the shares nonetheless represented on this record are nice merchandise which have tailored to supply a lot of the must-have options you’d count on in a chassis. The choice on chassis vs inventory primarily comes down to non-public choice, and this text will cowl one of the best choices for either side.

Whether or not it’s a chassis or a inventory, there are a few must-have options that high PRS shooters all appear to agree on, and each rifle inventory and chassis utilized by the highest 200 ranked shooters has:

Potential to fine-tune total weight and stability level utilizing weights in varied locations on the rifle. Most shooters need the stability level to be round 4-5” ahead of the magazine properly. (Hear suggestions from a professional on tuning your rifle stability.)

Potential to regulate and customise the match of the rifle to the shooter. That mainly consists of any a part of the rifle that is available in contact with the shooter: cheekpiece, butt, grip, and so on.

Potential to connect a bipod, plate bag, or different accent at any level below the forend (sometimes utilizing an arca rail).

I requested every shooter an recommendation query on the survey, and right here is a few that’s particularly related on this subject:

Q: In case you needed to title one factor that helped you probably the most in making the transition from ending mid-pack to one of many high shooters within the nation, what would that be?

A: “Whether or not you employ a inventory or chassis, ensure it’s correctly match and adjusted to you so you may spot extra of your impacts down vary.” – Thomas Crosson, #81 in 2023 PRS Open Season Rankings

Finest Precision Rifle Chassis/Inventory

Let’s take a look at the particular manufacturers of rifle chassis and shares these high marksmen believed would give them one of the best odds of getting impacts.

Masterpiece Arms (MPA), Basis Shares, and MDT are all properly forward of the remainder of the pack and mix to signify 79% of those shooters! I’ll give a extra thorough breakdown of every model and the particular fashions guys had been utilizing under.

In my expertise, these 3 particular producers (MPA, Basis, and MDT) are additionally those who’re most concerned within the Precision Rifle Sequence. I’ve personally seen the CEOs of all 3 corporations compete in pro-level, two-day matches. All 3 of these corporations are the title sponsor to a number of national-level, two-day PRS matches every year. They every have first-hand expertise within the sport, they get direct and fixed suggestions and new concepts from shooters that they regularly combine into their merchandise, and they’re lively and powerful supporters of the game. I’d suspect these issues assist them develop such compelling merchandise and are no less than a part of the rationale why these 3 signify nearly 80% of the highest shooters. I couldn’t have mentioned that about all of the manufacturers on the high of the record up to now, which is why that statement was noteworthy to me.

On this yr’s survey, I requested the shooters if their inventory or chassis was bedded, which was one thing I’d by no means requested earlier than, but it surely appears to be a sizzling subject among the many precision rifle crowd. (What does rifle bedding imply?) Listed below are the general outcomes:

67% of these nationally-ranked precision rifle shooters mentioned their competitors rifle was not bedded. I guess that surprises a couple of individuals! That’s one other manner precision rifles have developed over the previous few years. Again once we had been all utilizing conventional shares, each rifle was bedded! However, with so many of those being chassis and advances in manufacturing precision of each actions and chassis/shares, that doesn’t appear to be as crucial because it as soon as was.

In case you’re fascinated by studying extra about how these guys take into consideration bedding, listed below are a few YouTube movies/podcasts the place the blokes who completed #1 and #2 total give their ideas on bedding, together with the proprietor of MPA, who is clearly an professional on this house and has additionally been a high 100 PRS competitor himself up to now.

Whether or not somebody beds their chassis or inventory or not may differ by producer, so I’ll present a breakdown of these numbers for every model under.

MPA was the most well-liked model represented total, with 29% of the highest 200 ranked PRS shooters. However additionally they represented a whopping 44% of the highest 25, which is 20% greater than the subsequent model inside that group. The final time I printed the What The Professionals Use information was 2019, and MPA was the best choice then (see the info). So that they held on to their title!

Here’s a take a look at the particular MPA chassis fashions this group of precision riflemen mentioned they had been operating:

The MPA Matrix Professional Chassis was by far the most well-liked at 68%. It’s fascinating that the 2 guys within the high 10 utilizing an MPA chassis, #3 Morgun King and #8 Ken Sanoski, each mentioned they used the MPA Matrix chassis and never the Matrix Professional. So I reached out to Ken to ask why he most well-liked the MPA Matrix chassis over the Matrix Professional, and he mentioned the forend width on the Matrix Professional is a contact broad for his palms. He mentioned he wished he may use it as a result of the broader forend undoubtedly supplies extra stability, however transferring the rifle round throughout a stage is tougher for him due to the width.

MPA launched the 2nd technology of the MPA Matrix Professional in January 2024, referred to as the MPA Matrix Professional-II Chassis. It isn’t an enormous departure from the unique, but it surely integrates new enhancements primarily based on shooter suggestions. Ken Sanoski mentioned the Matrix Professional 2 chassis is one of the best of each worlds, in order that will probably be what he plans to compete with as soon as he will get it in. You’ll be able to see the visible comparability under. Study extra concerning the variations on this YouTube video.

Okay, now let’s take a look at what number of shooters utilizing an MPA chassis bedded their motion:

You’ll be able to see this combine primarily based on bedding MPA chassis is extra balanced. 26 of the 50 shooters utilizing an MPA chassis did NOT mattress their motion, however 24 mentioned they did. The blokes who DID mattress their chassis embrace each of the highest 10 shooters. Actually, the entire guys within the high 20 who had been utilizing an MPA chassis mentioned that they had bedded their rifles. The primary look of anybody within the rankings that did NOT mattress their MPA chassis appeared at #21 and #22. That might be a coincidence, but it surely was fascinating sufficient to level out.

The Want-To-Know About MPA Chassis

MPA says their chassis has been used to seize extra wins at each 1 and 2-day matches than some other inventory or chassis for the reason that inception of the PRS – and probably the most AG Cup matches, too! I don’t have information to assist or deny that declare, however I’d be shocked if it wasn’t true. MPA has been a dominant power on this PRS world since they arrived on the scene round 2014. A number of of the blokes who work at MPA are very aggressive PRS shooters, together with the proprietor, Phil Cashin, who has been within the group of top-ranked shooters in previous years. Meaning they get numerous enter from high shooters, however maybe extra importantly, MPA has set a brand new commonplace within the firearm business for fast prototyping and fast, iterative launch cycles. Put that collectively, and it’s a recipe for innovation!

One very distinctive factor concerning the MPA Matrix Professional is that it has extra grip-related choices than some other model: 7 totally different grip sizes/shapes + 3 totally different thumb relaxation choices + 4 set off finger assist choices. How comfy and repeatable your set off hand/finger is can play an enormous think about how repeatable your precision is from improvised positions – and, frankly, how a lot you get pleasure from utilizing a sure chassis or inventory. That’s why MPA has taken customizing a chassis to your hand and choice to the acute!

The MPA chassis affords a ton of different killer options: They had been the primary to characteristic an integral arca rail and ushered in using arca clamps and connectors into the PRS – which are actually on all the pieces! You’ll be able to add weights inside and out of doors the chassis to fine-tune the stability of your rifle. There are equipment to widen the forend.

The MPA Matrix Professional has a intelligent characteristic that no different chassis has: If you’re on a stage and understand your rear bag isn’t tall sufficient to achieve the butt of the rifle (and it’s occurred to all of us), you push a button, and the chassis and the butt extends down a few inches so you may attain your bag. So intelligent! They seek advice from it as their “Fast Launch Bag Rider.”

There are a ton of different equipment for MPA chassis, like dope card holders, attachments for chronographs/radars, brass catchers, two-round holders, and extra.

Lastly, the Matrix Professional has a really lengthy forend at 16.2” lengthy, which is 2” longer than the Matrix. You’ll be able to lengthen it even additional with a forend spigot or different rail equipment. I’ve observed in PRS taking pictures that longer forends may be helpful in a couple of methods. First, it permits you to put weights additional out, which has a extra important affect on the stability of your rifle. An extended forend may also open up extra choices for getting steady on levels like tractor tires as a result of it might be lengthy sufficient that you may bridge throughout the opening within the center with a bipod and rear bag for a extra steady place than you’d have the ability to get to on one aspect. You’ll be able to all the time convey your bipod nearer, however you solely have the choice to make it additional out you probably have an extended forend.

Basis Shares represented 26% of those top-ranked shooters, simply 3% behind MPA! Basis was the most well-liked inventory or chassis model among the many high 10, with 4 out 10 shooters selecting a Basis Inventory: #4 Austin Orgain, #5 Austin Buschman, #6 Kyle Mccormack, and #9 Chris Kutalek. Actually, should you simply take a look at the most well-liked inventory or chassis among the many high 50 shooters – Basis Shares had 15 shooters, MPA had 14, and MDT had 10. Among the many high 100, Basis had 26 shooters, and each MPA and MDT had 23.

A pal just lately identified to me that earlier than the 2023 season, the earlier 6 years of PRS Season Champions had been all utilizing a Basis Inventory: Austin Bushman in 2022, Austin Orgain in each 2021 and 2020, and Clay Blackketter in 2019, and Matthew Brousseau in 2018 and 2017! That streak resulted in 2023, however that was a loopy streak! Whereas Basis Shares is among the latest corporations on this record, they’ve actually gained traction among the many precision rifle crowd over the previous few years.

Listed below are the most well-liked Basis Shares utilized by these high aggressive shooters:

The Basis Centurion (MC1) represents 60% of those shooters, though there are a few extra shooters within the high 10 preferring the Basis Genesis2 (MG2) mannequin. There are a couple of variations, however the main ones are the Centurion has a vertical grip that may be very near the set off, and it has a bag hook on the butt, whereas the Genesis 2 has a extra conventional competitors grip at a slight angle, a beneficiant palm swell, and has a straight taper as a substitute of a butt hook.

You would possibly suppose that as a result of it’s a inventory and never a chassis, many individuals would mattress their rifles – however you’d be flawed! Listed below are the outcomes for what number of of those shooters are bedding their Basis inventory:

WOW! 84% of shooters DID NOT mattress their Basis Inventory – together with all 4 of the blokes within the high 10! That’s what occurs once you put a precision-machined motion in a precision-machined inventory that was reduce particularly for that mannequin motion and backside steel. No have to mattress a Basis! Extra on why that’s true under.

Actually, in an interview with two-time PRS champion Austin Orgain, I requested if he bedded his rifle, and his response was, “No. Nicely, I truly did mattress one among my Basis shares, and I’ve one other one that isn’t bedded. I wished to see if it made a distinction – and it didn’t. So I by no means bothered to mattress the opposite one.” Orgain is on the pinnacle of this sport and is an awfully detailed and aggressive particular person. If he believed it made even a 1% enchancment, he’d be doing it. However he doesn’t – so he was one of many guys within the high 10 utilizing a “non-bedded” Basis inventory.

The Want-To-Know About Basis Shares

Basis shares are very distinctive as a result of they’re machined from a strong block of Micarta, which is a dense composite shaped by combining layers of fabric and resin with intense warmth and stress. Micarta is similar robust materials you would possibly see used because the deal with on a customized knife. The end on most Basis Shares is harking back to conventional wooden shares, however the materials is each steady and sturdy in excessive environments. The fabric may be very homogenous and absent of any voids or air pockets generally present in composite shares.

The exceedingly excessive compression power of Micarta and Basis’s precision manufacturing permits them to construct a inventory that’s personalized for a selected motion and backside steel that requires no bedding or pillars. And I’m not saying they reduce a inventory the identical for all “Remington 700 Actions & Clones.” For instance, they account for the faceted face of a Lone Peak Fuzion as properly the surface diameter distinction of a Borden (1.360”) vs. a Bergara (1.355”) vs. an Impression (1.350”). All of these have Rem 700 motion footprints with very slight variations that Basis accounts for. This supplies a seating floor between the motion and inventory that’s exact all the way down to 0.005” or much less, permitting considerably extra floor space contact which was historically solely present in bedded shares. Basis does say that an motion should be inside +/- 0.002” of their specified diameter for correct seating, which most customized actions maintain with out a difficulty.

I’m unaware of some other inventory or chassis that has that very same strategy. All different shares or chassis that don’t require bedding make contact with an motion utilizing a V block or some sort of radiused floor the place solely a small portion of the motion is in touch and supported by the inventory/chassis. This distinction is why Basis says no bedding or gunsmithing is required on their shares – simply screw in a barreled motion and go!

One of the crucial frequent belongings you’ll hear individuals say about Basis shares is “how useless they really feel.” Not too long ago, I requested two-time PRS Champ Austin Orgain why he ran a Basis Inventory as a substitute of a chassis, and here’s what he mentioned:

“I began out within the PRS with a rifle in a Manners inventory. I like the texture of a extra conventional inventory. I did strive some chassis. I attempted among the early Masterpiece Arms chassis. I attempted an MDT chassis. I’ve tried an XLR chassis. I by no means favored the best way the rifle felt by way of recoil. It felt such as you had been taking pictures a tuning fork to me. There was numerous vibration and resonance in it. I did just like the modularity of a chassis, however then the Basis got here out, and you continue to had among the modularity with it by with the ability to add attachments utilizing that Anschutz rail. The Basis shares are made out of a fabric referred to as micarta, which has an excellent, tremendous useless really feel to it. So that you get just about no vibration once you shoot the rifle. It simply has useless recoil, and it’s strong. You don’t get that sort of tuning fork impact out of it like I felt like I might expertise within the chassis that I ran.” – Austin Orgain, PRS Champ in 2020 & 2021, #4 in 2023 PRS Open Season Rankings

Whereas the Basis Inventory appears much like a standard wooden inventory, it’s nonetheless very extensible. You’ll be able to add many equipment like a brief or full-length arca rail. Basis shares characteristic a full-length Anshutz rail that’s recessed into the forend, and plainly most shooters mount an arca rail to that after which can join bipods, tripods, plate luggage, barricade stops, or different equipment on to that like you may on a chassis.

You too can add weights to the forend of a Basis inventory to fine-tune the stability of the rifle or just add further weight.

At SHOT Present 2024, Basis Shares introduced their new Samson mannequin, which is clearly focused at PRS shooters. The Basis Samson inventory is much more tuneable for weight. The development within the PRS is in direction of heavier and heavier rifles, with 89% of those high 200 ranked PRS shooters operating rifles with an total weight between 20 and 26 lbs. The brand new Basis Samson Inventory may be configured to weigh from 8.5 to 11.9 lbs! They joked that you simply want the power of Samson to have the ability to carry it, and the title caught. 😉

If you wish to be taught extra concerning the new Basis Samson inventory, try this video.

A few months in the past, I printed interviews with professional shooters and previous PRS Season Champions Austin Orgain and Austin Buschman, the place they go into extra element on how they arrange their Basis inventory and why they select to run it – together with exhaustive particulars about their complete rifle setup:

MDT is the third juggernaut with actually massive numbers on this record, representing 25% of the PRS top-ranked shooters. MDT was simply 1 shooter behind Basis and 6 behind MPA – so it was very shut! The #2 shooter total, Andy Slade, was utilizing an MDT ACC Elite Chassis. Andy additionally gained $30,000 on the 2023 AG Cup again in December 2023 utilizing his MDT chassis, which is the most important payout match of the yr and all the time attracts one of the best of one of the best (learn extra about that).

Listed below are the 2 MDT Competitors Chassis that these top-ranked PRS shooters had been utilizing:

91% had been utilizing MDT’s flagship competitors chassis, the MDT ACC Elite Chassis and 9% had been utilizing the MDT ACC Premier Chassis. Each chassis characteristic numerous choices.

So what number of operating an MDT chassis determined to mattress their rifle?

66% of the top-ranked PRS shooters did NOT mattress their MDT chassis. That features Andy Slade, who bought 2nd total, together with 2 extra shooters within the high 25. Here’s a hyperlink to a podcast/video the place Andy shares his view on bedding his MDT rifles: #2 Andy Slade on The Winner’s Circle Season 1, Episode 13 @ 43 min

The Want-To-Know About MDT Chassis

I talked about MPA’s innovation, however MDT is now proper there with them. MDT has been increasing into the PRS world extra aggressively than some other firm – with their chassis and plenty of different merchandise, just like the MDT CkyePod bipod, MDT magazines, MDT Ship iT digital stage, and so on. The final time I did my What The Professionals Use survey was on the finish of the 2018 season, and solely 2% of shooters had been utilizing an MDT chassis. Two years earlier than that, not one of the high shooters had been utilizing MDT! Right this moment, they’re very near a three-way tie for 1st! That’s spectacular!

One of many nice issues about each MDT chassis is that they have a really lengthy forend in comparison with most different manufacturers, which might open up extra choices for getting steady on levels like tractor tires as a result of it’s lengthy sufficient that you may bridge over the opening within the center for a extra steady place than you’d have the ability to get to 1 aspect. The MDT Premier is eighteen inches lengthy ahead of the magwell, and the MDT Elite forend is nineteen inches lengthy (proven under). That’s nearly 3” longer than the forend on the MPA Matrix Professional, which appears important.

One of the crucial compelling elements concerning the MDT chassis is the loopy variety of equipment you should use to customise the chassis not simply to suit you however to cater to your private taking pictures model. I can’t presumably record all of them, however they’ve the frequent issues like weight kits to fine-tune the stability of your rifle – however then they’ve distinctive issues like rubber dampeners that pop into the voids within the buttstock and act much like vibration dampeners on a bow. Earlier, I shared how Austin Orgain hated the best way a chassis rifle felt by way of recoil: “It felt such as you had been taking pictures a tuning fork to me. There was numerous vibration and resonance in it.” Nicely, that’s what MDT is making an attempt to mitigate with these rubber dampeners.

Keith Baker is among the most skilled shooters within the PRS, with extra lifetime PRS factors than some other shooter! (See the PRS lifetime rankings.) MDT teamed up with Keith to create one thing they name MDT Baker Wings, which appears fairly helpful and progressive. It’s simpler to observe 30 seconds of the video under than attempt to clarify it with phrases or images:

There are a ton of different MDT equipment to customise your rifle, like totally different grips, bag riders, and thumbrests – and MDT provides extra on a regular basis. Their grips are additionally suitable with any AR-15 model grip, which opens up choices from numerous different producers.

XLR was the 4th hottest chassis or inventory amongst these high rivals, representing 9% whole – however that included two of the highest 10 shooters: #1 Kahl Harmon and #7 Jeff Guerry! So it’s clearly as succesful when it comes to efficiency as some other product. XLR has additionally been on the record of manufacturers for the What The Professionals Use since I first printed that information after the 2012 PRS Season (view 2012 information).

Beneath is a photograph of 2023 PRS Season Champion Kahl Harmon in motion together with his XLR chassis! Kahl is a member of the US Military Marksmanship Unit. (Study extra about Kahl and his rifle.)

Of the 15 shooters who mentioned they use an XLR chassis, all of them mentioned they had been utilizing the XLR Envy Professional chassis – aside from one shooter ranked a hundred and ninetieth who mentioned, “It’s simply the XLR buttstock.” Right here’s a take a look at the XLR Envy Professional chassis:

The XLR Envy Professional Chassis has lots of the identical options as different chassis designed for competitions, they usually even bundle lots of the equipment conveniently in a PRS Competitors Equipment.

Of the 15 shooters, 5 mentioned they DO mattress their chassis, together with each Kahl Harmon and Jeff Guerry within the high 10. Here’s a hyperlink to a podcast the place Kahl shares his ideas on why he beds his XLR chassis: #1 Kahl Harmon on The Winner’s Circle Season 1, Episode 26 @ 41 min.

7% of the highest 200 ranked shooters within the PRS had been utilizing a Manners Inventory. Nonetheless, no shooters within the high 25 had been utilizing it, and there have been solely 2 within the high 50.

Manners is the longest-running inventory producer on this record. I keep in mind itemizing them as one of many shares utilized by the highest PRS shooters after the PRS’s inaugural yr in 2012. That was the primary time we collected and printed the What The Professionals Use information (view 2012 information). Precision rifle taking pictures has developed dramatically since 2012, however Manners has continued to adapt and evolve with it – in contrast to McMillan and most different conventional inventory producers. The primary Manners shares had been made for rifle competitions, so it’s no shock they’re nonetheless being utilized by severe rivals.

All 12 of the shooters who mentioned they had been utilizing a Manners Inventory mentioned they had been particularly utilizing the Manners PRS-TCS mannequin inventory, which stands for “Tunable Competitors Inventory.”

Manners says their PRS-TCS inventory “was designed from the bottom up with the final word purpose of making a completely weight-tunable inventory to attain the right balanced competitors rifle. The PRS-TCS comes commonplace with many out-of-the-box choices not discovered on different shares.” These options embrace a weight-tunable arca rail system the place you may add as much as 2.1 lbs to the entrance of the rifle and an adjustable butt plate that can be weight-tunable by including as much as 1.6 lbs to the very rear of the rifle.

9 of the 12 shooters utilizing a Manners Inventory mentioned their rifle was NOT bedded, that means solely 3 shooters did mattress their Manners inventory. That may sound humorous for a extra conventional composite inventory, however the Manners PRS-TCS inventory comes commonplace with their MCS-DBM Mini Chassis. That may be a V-block chassis contained in the inventory that permits you to merely screw in a barreled motion such as you would in a chassis.

Solely 2% of the highest shooters surveyed had been utilizing a KRG chassis, however that included Nick Gadarzi, who completed tenth within the 2023 Open Season Rankings. So, regardless of its decrease recognition, it’s nonetheless clearly able to performing on the highest ranges.

KRG is the final model that has additionally been round since my first installment of “What The Professionals Use” after the 2012 PRS Season (view 2012 information), they usually’ve tailored and innovated alongside the best way.

All 4 of the shooters mentioned they had been utilizing the KRG C-4 Chassis, which was launched in 2022.

The KRG C-4 chassis options many changes for the match and performance of the buttstock (all toolless), plus the chassis has changes to fine-tune the peak and stress to your journal. With the ability to fine-tune the peak and stress of your journal generally is a massive deal within the PRS and may help your rifle to feed reliably, even with some stress on the journal from a taking pictures bag or prop. The KRG C-4 chassis additionally encompasses a longer, 16.75” forend – which might make it simpler so as to add weights to stability the rifle, but in addition offer you extra choices for how one can get steady on some levels (like tractor tires).

The KRG C4 Chassis additionally encompasses a distinctive barrel shroud that you may customise to the clearance you want to your optics (with or with no sunshade). KRG affords quite a few equipment for this chassis, like weights, they usually offer you a couple of choices for grips and cheekpieces.

3 of the 4 KRG chassis represented amongst these shooters had been bedded – together with Nick Gadarzi’s at #10.

Different Rifle Shares/Chassis with 1 Shooter Amongst High 200

The 6 manufacturers of precision rifle shares and chassis that I coated above signify 97% of the 200 top-ranked PRS shooters. Nonetheless, there have been a couple of further manufacturers represented – though they solely had 1 shooter every.

Comparability To Information for All PRS Members

On the PRS web site, every member has a chance to specify their favourite gear on their profile. It’s non-compulsory, however round 43% of the three,700 PRS profiles had one thing specified below “Inventory” again in July 2023 when the PRS Director, Ken Wheeler, shared the info with me. I assumed it’d be fascinating to see what the lots had been utilizing in comparison with what these shooters on the very high had been utilizing. I additionally wished to see this as a result of it represents over 1,500 shooters, which is a large pattern measurement.

Disclaimer: I need to preface this with one thing Ken and I talked about. We all know many shooters don’t maintain these things up to date. They could initially enter all the pieces once they first join, however 2-3 years later, they could be operating totally different gear, they usually by no means up to date their profile. Energetic members have the flexibility to replace their “favourite gear” record at any time, however we all know a few of that information is probably going stale and needs to be taken with a grain of salt. With that mentioned, right here is it:

What may be very fascinating to me is that the highest 3 for the professionals are additionally the highest 3 throughout all PRS member profiles, and the highest 6 had been nonetheless the highest 6. These 6 manufacturers represented 97% of the highest 200 ranked shooters within the PRS, and those self same 6 manufacturers represented 95% of all PRS member profiles! Whereas the market share for anybody model or precise order can differ among the many totally different teams, I’m stunned by how carefully they align total.

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