Tod Soeby has been shooting all his life, but the Walhalla, N.D., man really started making a bang in 2008, when he began competing in rifle matches sponsored by the International Benchrest Shooters.

Hunters are free to join bench-rest shooting competitions just like anyone else, of course. But that’s not what we are talking about here. For us, shooting from a bench usually means that we are ...

His first Schuetzen rifle was a Pope rifle that was made by famed gun maker Harry Pope in 1903. The more he shot the gun, the more he questioned many things about its performance and how to improve it ...