Meet David Rey AKA “David la Mitraille”

King of 1 Mile 2023 France

– David Rey, My Extreme Long Range Shooting Story- The fastest ko1M shooter that earned him his nick name, “Machinegun David”!

David Rey, “La Mitraille” King of 1 Mile Edition – This is a special edition of of My Elr Shooting Story which by now has brought you some of the most talented ELR shooters around the globe and some more amazing shooters to come! Today we start with the King of 1 Mile who made an entry and quickly soaring to the 1 Mile throne with a very fast string of fire as you will see in the video further down.

This rifletalks.com edition is special, we covered the King of 1 Mile in France at Camp Canjuers ourselves while we were there. It was our second time at King of 1 Mile, our first being Caylus. We enjoyed 6 days in France with four of them spent at this beautiful Extreme Long Range Shooting Camp with like minded ELR shooters. It’s a military camp, the largest one in Europe i’m told. It was a blast! We had the pleasure to participate and see how other European and American shooters do their thing at Extreme distances. We also had the pleasure to meet Jay Dvorsky from Texas, US that came along and shot his 460 Steyr with Benjamin Sanmarco.

Driving on towards the base camp for ko1/2m on a well kept military complex.

David Rey King of 1 Mile foreword

The 1 Mile competition is very important, it is achievable with most 30 caliber magnums, many shooters out there already have a setup that can do 1 mile maybe with a simple bullet change and it is a feeder competition to the 2 mile competition which requires another level of commitment in terms of ELR equipment. This was evident in the number of competitors. There were 110 competitors brushing shoulders for the King of 1 Mile title and 36 for King of 2 Mile competition, that’s about a third. Still very good numbers and turn out with alot of familiar faces and new ones which I recognised from my starting discipline, F-Class Europeans shooting at Bisley and some also coming from PRS and even 22ELR.

Driving through Nice, beautiful drive and scenery here. Highly recommended.

Special thanks

I want to also thank the organizers, Eduardo Abril de Fontcuberta as well as Benjamin Gineste and Hugues Vogin that helped us while we were on camp with our many questions. Other shooters that we had the pleasure to spend time with and who were great company and source of inspiration like Jay Dvorsky, Fabrizio Giuggia, Bruno Put from Armeca, Olivier from TPM Balles, Stef Ber, Roman Ochaba, Francois Dreuil, Benoit, Marco Bean, Benjamin Sanmarco, Lema and Angel from the Spanish team, Harry Drescher from Solid Solution Designs that scrambled to get our DT 37XC ready before the Ko2M competition, Stefan Van der Heide, Maurizio from Little Boy Rifles that were a reference point for us during our time in France and especially before getting there. There was a real good friendly atmosphere! We shot for a short time but we spent a great deal of time with these people.

The famous guys from Group Mike some of whom we had the pleasure to shoot with in Italy at Extreme Shot Italia last year.

Above: Stefan Van Der Heide and Harry Drescher that placed 3rd place at Ko2m.

This King of 1 Mile competition is not just about the shooting as many other competitors will tell you. It’s numerous factors put together, quite different to shooting Fclass at Bisley for example. It keeps you on your toes as Fabrizio Giuggia put it. It gives you little time to prepare and you must be ready to go, on a range you probably never shot. Thursday afternoon we zeroed our rifles at 100m, this was the day before the shoot starts with 20 other shooters blasting away. It was hot and the gravel steaming, the 100m paper target was plastered with mirage. We shared one 2×3 foot board between 5 shooters and had a paper target each. We had 10 minutes to zero one rifle and another 10mins to check the other gun. Then you will be called up based on a raffle system which decides your fate in the sequence of shooters during the competition. Your rifle is weighed during the registration process which was also an opportunity to have a few corner pocket chats. We had not yet David Rey till this moment.

Trucks lined up at the 100m zeroing range at Camp Canjuers. Look at the number of pick ups in this picture, almost like a US based match.

You will shoot in any weather condition as long as you can see the targets and you have 9 minutes to do so with 5 minutes to get setup up on the firing line. No excuses, You must find your targets on this immense stretch of flat lands and you will engage when asked to start. The weather around you maybe hot or wet and you may wait a long time before your turn. You may have to wait to see if the weather will clear and then be asked to get ready. It’s as real as it gets and I believe will get any shooter outside their comfort zone, even the best ones out there with thousands of rounds under their belt. You have 13 rounds to make it count, 1 cold bore then 12 to count for qualifiers. Ready? Go.

You can only move to the next target only if you hit the target you are on. If you surpass the amount of shots allowed for that distance eg, 3 rounds for 1190m target, the other shots you take are there to help you make it to the next stage but they do not count for points. The point systems favors first round impacts. The points increase as the distance increases in such a way to increase the gap between one shooter and another.

It’s also harder for shooters to work out their exact ranking in the competition till the results are out. Then you also have the time factor. If you make it, you will go to day two which will be your final round where you will shoot 5 rounds per target for 3 targets. IF you have done well on day one and scored big points, it may help you on day two but we have seen shooters come crawling on day one and sprinting on day two to the podium as did David Rey, the King of 1 Mile in Canjuers. David Rey did this with a 338Lapua Magnum, the classic round is not dead.

_______________________

Sponsored Snippet

SQi-AndiX doppler radar

AndiScan micro is an advanced ballistic velocity Doppler radar for measuring muzzle velocity of projectiles. It operates in 24GHz frequency band. It is a highly integrated and extremely small form-factor device that is intended to be directly mounted on the rifle. This frees the user from a complicated setup alignment and it also allows to perform measurements under dynamic conditions. It is a first device of this form-factor on the public market.
A2 model is an updated new version of the original A1 pilot model.

37XC rounds over this chronograph during zeroing session in France, 6 rounds of 37XC with 10.9ft/s Extreme spread. [The last two numbers are not visible due to the refresh rate of the screen and has nothing to do with the unit shown above]

_____________________

Last bit, if you’re shooting both competitions, you will have to keep an eye out on what’s happening on the other side of the mountain as the shoots are conducted simultaneously and you may need to get ready for your Ko1m/Ko2m shoot when you’re done from one of the strings. There is no real time communication between the two shoots happening. This maybe improved for next year to facilitate those shooting both competitions.

WATCH David REY King of 1 Mile Shooting his Final Round 

David Rey was introduced by Benjamin GINESTE as the Prince of 22LR and he exited as the King of 1 Mile, WOW. Notice his rifle suppressed steaming after that fast string completed. He shot really fast or as Benjamin describes him “machinegun fire”. As they say, when you catch a wind condition ride it. Notice he shoots a right bolt action and uses his left hand for the trigger to enable him to cycle the action even faster, something we had seen Derek Rogers do as well on the Ko2M a few years back.

EN:

 

________________________

Where about in the France are you based? Do you have access to ELR shooting grounds nearby? 

J’habite à coté de Marmande en France près de Bordeaux. je tire sur 4 différents pas de tir, de 500 à 2000m

Which one of these describes you best?*

Competition shooter

Elr shooter

Hunter

Prs

Fclass

Benchrest

Can you share one ELR experience that really got you going in the sport? (success stories, a moment you remember well or a training experience that you remember)

Comme dit dans la présentation, c’est mon stage de formation qui m’a vraiment donné goût à l’ERL avec le fait de devoir prendre en compte tous ces éléments et paramètres ( balistique, vent, pression… ) il y a aussi le fait d’avoir rencontré mon parrain Eric.R . C’est lui qui m’a poussé à m’inscrire pour faire mon premier Prince of 22 ERL.

What do you look for when you set out to build an ELR rifle?

J’essaie d’avoir les meilleurs éléments afin d’avoir une carabine irréprochable.

EN: I try to get hold of the best components to have a superb rifle built.

King of 1 Mile 2023 qualifying round France 

FINAL ROUND points for KO1M France 

What rifle are you currently running for 1-mile shooting and can you share some info about the rifle build?

Alors je ne tire pas au 2 milles. Pour le one mile, j’utilise une Dolphin en 338LM. Elle a une action barnard et un canon bartlein 32″.

I have not yet shot two miles, for the moment I’m doing one mile with a dolphin rifle in 338Lapua Magnum in a Barnard action and 32″ bartlein.

Bedding: Is the barrel bedded forward of the action or is it the action only?

No it’s a chassis rifle.

Which scope are you using for ELR?

Cétait une steiner M5Xi 5-25×56 MSR2

How far out can you get with your setup before mounting a prism device?

<1500yds

<2000yds

<2500yds

<3000yds

<3500yds

March Scope 5-42×56 FFP High Master

Do you anneal your brass and if so how often? Do you find yourself trimming your brass regularly on these big calibers?

Pour l’instant non mais c’est un projet. mon dernier lot lapua a fait 12 rechargement. au 10éme, J’avais un SD de 1.7

EN: For the moment no but it is a next project. My last Lapua batch did 12 reloads. At the 10th, I had an SD of 1.7

______________________

Sponsored Snippet

ARC Ballistics

 

View this post on Instagram

 

A post shared by rod@rifletalks.com (@rifletalks)

Ko2M Video Benjamin Sanmarco

 

View this post on Instagram

 

A post shared by rod@rifletalks.com (@rifletalks)