Most shooters that shoot sitting, unsupported shoot with the crossed ankle or crossed leg position. I assume this is because they are confined to these positions due to rules?
It seems like there are better sitting positions, especially for a heavy tactical rifle, than these.
I was messing around the other day and trying different sitting positions with and without a sling with my Remington 5R .308. Due to the very front heavy nature of this rifle with a bipod, I found the "common" sitting positions to force my NPA too low to be useful unless I needed to shoot down-hill. I can manage this position just fine with a "sporter weight" rifle, especially with no bipod. I tried the "sniper sitting" position like menioned in FM23-10, where (RH shooter) the left knee is up and the right knee is down with the right foot inserted below the left leg. Left arm "hugs" the left knee and grasps the right elbow with the rifle sitting on top of the left arm elbow area. This didn't work well for me either. But I tried grabbing my left knee with my hand and resting the floorplate of the rifle on my left knee and it was very steady and comfortable both with and without the sling. So I started google image searching "sitting position shooting". After I finished looking at the porn google retreived with that search string, I found some interesting field air rifle positions like the ones shown here on 6mmbr:
http://www.6mmbr.com/fieldtargetposition.html
One that looks a lot like what I mentioned and some others that are minor variations including this from kermitairgunclub in Texas:
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Why aren't these positions used more? Rules? Or is there another reason. I have not actually shot from any of these positions, so maybe recoil is a factor?
It seems like there are better sitting positions, especially for a heavy tactical rifle, than these.
I was messing around the other day and trying different sitting positions with and without a sling with my Remington 5R .308. Due to the very front heavy nature of this rifle with a bipod, I found the "common" sitting positions to force my NPA too low to be useful unless I needed to shoot down-hill. I can manage this position just fine with a "sporter weight" rifle, especially with no bipod. I tried the "sniper sitting" position like menioned in FM23-10, where (RH shooter) the left knee is up and the right knee is down with the right foot inserted below the left leg. Left arm "hugs" the left knee and grasps the right elbow with the rifle sitting on top of the left arm elbow area. This didn't work well for me either. But I tried grabbing my left knee with my hand and resting the floorplate of the rifle on my left knee and it was very steady and comfortable both with and without the sling. So I started google image searching "sitting position shooting". After I finished looking at the porn google retreived with that search string, I found some interesting field air rifle positions like the ones shown here on 6mmbr:
http://www.6mmbr.com/fieldtargetposition.html
One that looks a lot like what I mentioned and some others that are minor variations including this from kermitairgunclub in Texas:
Why aren't these positions used more? Rules? Or is there another reason. I have not actually shot from any of these positions, so maybe recoil is a factor?
