Tim, to give you an idea how big NRL22 itself is. 1333 paid memberships for the 2019/2020 season. Before all the covid crap, the raw scores for January show 58 clubs that month participating with just under 700 shooters for that months course of fire. Now this does not include ranges running outlaw 22lr events. The 22lr Postional rifle world in the past 2 years has grown big enough to effect LOTS of ammo with both eley and lapua..Good thing is most people in the discipline don't shoot the really high end ammo yet. But I am seeing that changing also, way more people are sending their rifles into Eley and Lapua test centers and buying the good stuff. It's a large enough market now, that it's changing the major companies like CZ, Bagara, Ruger and other smaller companies to produce 22 rifles more suited for the game. Right now the 2 biggest players in the positional game are Vudoo and CZ with other sinking major money into the market. Tim the biggest draw to the sport is cost! The average person can buy a CZ457 setup for this game for 700 add 300 more in bipods and bags and you are setup. Hell my wifes new cliff arnold rest cost more than most peoples complete nrl22 setup. Hell even Dan killough is now selling nrl22 complete rifle packages with tested ammo.
Now the other market that's growing leap and bounds is Smallbore F-class, this is a whole different animal and it's starting off with people buying up a lot of the used BR rifles hitting the market. But unlike BR you still don't need a crazy ass rifle with tons of ammo testing to be competitive at the majors.
My first Vudoo ser# 11xx and our latest rifle is 30xx those rifle are only 2 years apart in age and I got the last one in the middle of 2019. The reason we own the higher end 22lr for our game is because it 100% mimics my CF rifle that I shoot for the positional game. Chassis, trigger, weight and scope are all the same.
The really cool thing is with all the new 22lr owners out there they are starting to trickle into the BR world. They will learn really quickly that upgrades to the equipment is a must! Oh damn I just HATE buying more 22lr stuff,,,rest, wind flags more guns!!!! LOL