Quote Originally Posted by himself View Post
Competition is good for shooting so I wish the new association success with their venture.
Demand for competitions is a good thing.

Whilst I wish everybody success, having multiple bodies all claiming to be the Governing Body for Benchrest is a bad thing - it confuses newcomers and indeed onlookers and other shooters around the periphery who can't make head nor tail of how it's all organised. If anything we need significantly fewer bodies rather than more. The sport is horribly fragmented.

UKBR22 state the following on their home page:
To introduce our selves we are the United Kingdom Association of Rimfire & Air Rifle Benchrest Shooting (UKBR22). By that we mean "True Benchrest Shooting". The Association is recognised by rimfire shooters across the UK as the representative body that promotes air rifle and rimfire benchrest across the country and with partners in other countries.
Clearly if they're not the nominated UK body to represent at WRABF and ERABSF, then that last sentence is untrue.

Just to be clear, the NSRA have ceded control as the UK's representative body at WRABF over to the new BenchrestUK org? So BenchrestUK can legitimately claim to be the UK's National Governing Body for Benchrest and WRABF would agree?