My bad day hopefully helps you

[Gildoom]

So, I take out my 300 win mag today, I had not shot it in a few months. I setup at 100 yards my targets, and dry fire I think only twice, should have done more, but I start shooting. Scope appeared to be off a tad, so I begin to chase my hits.

After a bit, I get very frustrated as you can see by the pictures of the main targets, this is a Steyr SSG04 300 win mag, it is not going to be the "most" accurate rifle but it sure as shit is better than this....

So I stop shooting, I grab one of my AK's from the jeep, and stand up. Shooting, around 90 rounds (mags have 30), I run out of ammo and notice on that last no round in chamber, dip and pull.

This isn't supposed to happen, I do not do this with my other rifles what is going on, so I shoot more, same thing. So I sit down, turn my sound off on my headset (no background), and dry fire for a good 10 minutes.

I dry fire like I am supposed to, slow, just like I would really be shooting, not just doing the motions.

I load up, shoot, dry fire between rounds 2x maybe 3x before new round. Drop in a round, do this 5 times and make this group.

Where am I aiming? Point of Aim on that 5 shot cluster was the 2nd dot down. This is a 45acp from the HK, to give a scale. Hey look at that, my scope was actually damn near right on before I went all stupid changing my knobs around.

Then I do what I usually do with the dots below.

In the end I finally overcame this to a certain degree, but I was flinching for some reason. I am not sure why, I honestly have no clue, I was all alone, I've shot this rifle before, I just got the stupids and couldn't stop.

Hope it helps someone I sure was pissed off at myself when I made this quite a bit harder than it needed to be.

 

[CanSniper]

Re: My bad day hopefully helps you

Thats cool! you actually diagnosed the problem instead of just blaming the eqiupment. Ive had days where I just cant get it together, bothers me untill I can get back out then I think I try to hard. Its always good to leave on a good note. some shooters just can not admit they might be doing somthing wrong.

 

[Gildoom]

Re: My bad day hopefully helps you

Thanks, I think I need to shoot my 22LR way more than I do, which is damn near never.

 

[GrantB]

Re: My bad day hopefully helps you

A 300 mag would make me start flinching if I don't keep my concentration

 

[WhiskeyWebber]

Re: My bad day hopefully helps you

This is where I learned a lot by shooting an air rifle in my garage. I realized I was in a complete hurry and distracted by everything at the range. Shooting in my garage taught me how to relax behind the gun...maybe for the first real time. Dry fire work is good but I find I get more feedback from a 10m air rifle... there is actually a real target that I'm following through on and I can check my call after each trigger pull. Plus...it was an excuse to spend more money on shooting gear

ps Gildoom- I wouldn't say you had a bad day I would call it a learning day. From the progress you made, I'd say you left the range a better shooter that day... that's a good day

 

[Gildoom]

Re: My bad day hopefully helps you

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: WhiskeyWebber</div><div class="ubbcode-body">This is where I learned a lot by shooting an air rifle in my garage. I realized I was in a complete hurry and distracted by everything at the range. Shooting in my garage taught me how to relax behind the gun...maybe for the first real time. Dry fire work is good but I find I get more feedback from a 10m air rifle... there is actually a real target that I'm following through on and I can check my call after each trigger pull. Plus...it was an excuse to spend more money on shooting gear

ps Gildoom- I wouldn't say you had a bad day I would call it a learning day. From the progress you made, I'd say you left the range a better shooter that day... that's a good day </div></div>

Thanks, I appreciate that.

That is great advice, I will have to look into doing that. I dry fired one of my AR's for a long time the other night after the kids were in bed and the wife was watching some show. I felt better for sure, I am tempted to get rid of the rifle and get better with my lower calibers then perhaps come back to it in a year. But with something else, I like this rifle but the stock puts me off, this was another buy off the internet not testing it.