Gasser Shooting Tips

[oubeta]

Everyone always says a gas gun is harder to shoot that a bolt. I've been slowly extending the range I'm shooting on with my REPR and I'm at around 500yrds now and my groups are starting to get big.
The gun is dead on at 100 and shoots great groups. I know it's my technique making my groups big.
Could someone explain the proper way to follow through with a gas gun?
Is this the main thing you have to worry about?
I'm shot with the gas system 'C' closed and it didn't help out my groups any. This should minimize the 3 recoils everyone talks about shouldn't it?

thanks in advance

 

[BCP]

Re: Gasser Shooting Tips

Keeping your eyes open the whole time, holding the rifle on target after you pull the trigger, pulling the trigger all the way back and then slowly easing it forward until it resets, maintaining the same cheekweld, couple others I can't think of at the moment. Flinching can really fuck you too.

LLight has a video of himself shooting a POF at long range & he gives some tips, look it up.

How big are your groups and what do they look like?

 

[oubeta]

Re: Gasser Shooting Tips

The groups are good out to 300 yards then they start to open up.
At 300 yards it's around a 5" group which I know is probably the fault of the operator. It groups sub MOA most of the time at 100yrds.
At distance the groups really string out laterally. They are all pretty good vertically, but I start to string them out. My groups look like a straight line across the target.

 

[Lowlight]

Re: Gasser Shooting Tips

Groups never go... 1 MOA at 100 = 2" @ 200, 3" @ 300, etc...

Realistically you can figure on a growing rate as you move out as more factors effect the shot, including shooters errors. If you watch some of the videos, the Pad of the finger versus the Joint, we saw no difference at 100 yards but a 1/2 MOA difference at 300 just changing our finger from the pad to the joint.

So, expect angular growth that multiples and not adds.


At the Bash, with 92 shooters we put out 1 MOA targets from 400 yards to 100 yards - only 2 I recalled cleaned this drill... Kyle L from Barrett with his 338 MRAD and Francis the 1st match winner. That was a 5" Shoot N C at 400, 3" @ 300, 2" 200 and 1" at 100. We only required 4 rounds on target to score 100.