I was privileged to come out of the 2025 Midwest PRS series with a Sportsman division win. This is not the same as an Open division win, where the field is far deeper. However, Sportsman did present several unique challenges. Chief among them is weight. The class has a 13-pound weight limit for the entire set-up: rifle, optic, bipod, magazine – anything attached to the gun during the course of a stage. That’s a tight limit for a match rifle, and several of the components I in

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