Our club (Marbletown Sportsmen, Stone Ridge, N.Y. Google it to see our website.) has been hosting .22 Bench Rest matches for 10 years, but I haven't won one in a while (excuses to follow). Btw, all of our matches are fired at 50 yds. Today I managed to shoot 200-4X and 200-3X in the plinker/marksman class. (A perfect score would be 200-20X, but nobody has ever come close to that.) That class is limited to .22 rifles with no more than a 9X scope (can be 3-9X) and a standard stock configuration and uses 2 target cards of 5 eight inch bullseyes with a ~.22cal. X ring. Other classes include "hunter," which can use a scope up to 36X and a modified stock and true bench rifles ("unlimited" class). The hunter and unlimited classes shoot at 2.5" targets (25 for record) with a tiny X ring: The X ring is perhaps a trifle larger than the period you see at the end of this sentence.
Most of the marksman/plinker class rifles are bull barreled Marlins & Savages using a variety of match grade ammo. Those with aperture sights and Winchester target rifles also compete in this class and often outshoot the scoped rifles. As I mentioned earlier, I hadn't won a match in the 2007 & 2008 seasons until today when I decided to switch the ammo I was using from Aguila Match (supposedly made under Ely supervision) to Wolf (Jagd) Match Target. My rifle has always done well with Wolf Match Target (shot a 200-8X once using it), but not the Aguila, which was very inconsistent even when weighed and sorted. If you shoot competitively, avoid it like the plague! Today's win was a satisfying conclusion to our .22 matches.