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I'm not an expert with a rifle, but it sounds like you have a significant investment in yours. I believe the mid and long range classes at Thunder Ranch can be a little hard on equipment. Not sure I would take a high end F-Class rifle to one of his sessions. Understand that there won't be anyone impressed with the pedigree of the rifle and the accuracy requirement is more along the "Minute of Badguy" lines.So I'm on the hairy edge of pushing the button for the mid-range rifle class coming up at the end of October. I have a GAP rifle in 6.5CM with a Templar action, a 26" GAP#7 Bartlein barrel, an Area419 Hellfire muzzle brake, a Manners Elite carbon fiber stock and a Nightforce 5-25x56 ATACR F1 MIL-XT scope. Needless to say, it is one heavy rig. I've spoken to someone who took this class a few years ago and they highly recommend it - lots of good solid drills that will thoroughly test you and your rifle for getting consistently reliable hits from 100 out to 700 yards with 70% of your time shooting prone. I think they recommend bringing 400 rounds of ammo.
I've zeroed the rifle at TCGC on the 100 yard range, and it is definitely a sub half MOA gun even with a relative newbie like me behind the wheel, but that's about all the shooting I've had time for. I guess I'm wondering if I should get more comfortable with this rifle - say at the 200/300 yard range at TCGC or DRRC - before diving head first into a Clint 'hard-as-nails' class - especially after reading Prefontaine's comment above on Clint's view of muzzle brakes. Any thoughts?
But like I said, I am no expert.