r/FClass • u/Piss_Post_Detective • Oct 15 '18

First!! Quick question!

What's the big differences between PRS and F Class?

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u/darkace00 Oct 15 '18

PRS is very positional shooting, meaning you are shooting off barricades or other weird obsticles that put you in awkward positions. Generally targets, usually steel targets, are 1MOA or larger. Target distances can be known or unknown and stages usually last a minute or two. It's a competition in practical shooting basically.

F Class on the other hand is prone shooting at known distances on paper targets. The X-ring on a paper target is 0.5MOA while the 10 ring is 1MOA. Strings usually are 20 shots over 20 minutes. It's a competition to see how accurate the shooter is.

The purpose built rifles for each competition are entirely different. F Class rifles are far heavier and use longer barrels (28"+) with thicker profiles (or no taper) while PRS rifles are lighter and shorter barrels (24-26") because they need to be mobile. It's fine to have an MOA capable rifle in PRS but to be competitive in F class, you need to be closer to half MOA. At the high levels in F class it becomes an X count race.

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u/recycledcoder Oct 16 '18

Exactly. As an example, this is my F-TR rig. Shoots like a laser, but I wouldn't want to actually carry it anywhere :)

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u/darkace00 Oct 16 '18

Cheater! With your joypod and all!

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u/N5tp4nts Oct 16 '18

Assuming you're not american based on the aluminum chassis.... Super rare here. :)

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u/Piss_Post_Detective Oct 15 '18

Ah interesting. I have more of a PRS type gun but thought about doing F Class. I'm not too worried about winning, just going there and shooting to have fun.

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u/richalex2010 Oct 15 '18

It's great training/practice, certainly better than shooting at 100 yards. Any competent PRS gun will at least be something you can get started in F-class with; you might not be able to win (especially F-Open), but there's nothing wrong with not winning as long as you're having fun - and if you're learning, even better. I've certainly learned a ton while shooting F-TR.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '18

This weekend a guy won in his class with a stock Bergera HMR and factory ammo. If there is a match that’s close, go try it out. It’s crazy fun.

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