We all know about the effects of recoil, anticipation for it, and recovery from it; even fatigue; but, what about other effects. I've always thought recoil was something I needed to control. Now, I'm wondering about that. The other day I recognized my plot of calls right-in-there from a dry fire exercise superimposed to calls right-in-there from a live fire exercise. This made me consider rifle movement while the bullet is still in the bore may not be the from force I've attributed it to. Interestingly, the exercises were from the standing position, which requires a different zero than prone for the same distance. This counters my earlier observation and infers that recoil or some force from the bullet while still in the bore does have an effect, and that such effect becomes directional according to the manner in which it is controlled. It could, of course, have something to do with my perception of sight alignment, since I have more eye relief in the standing position than from prone.
I don't know that an understanding for this will lead to me shooting better, it may not be important, since proper follow through and adjustment of NPA, for whatever reason, has been shown to get a bullet where aimed. Nevertheless, I thought this was interesting.
I don't know that an understanding for this will lead to me shooting better, it may not be important, since proper follow through and adjustment of NPA, for whatever reason, has been shown to get a bullet where aimed. Nevertheless, I thought this was interesting.