I'm 6'6" 346 lb and had a bad car crash a few years ago with resultant back and neck injury. So I admittedly am not the typical shooter, nor PRS competitor. After almost 2 years of shooting and competing I was all but ready to give it up due to an inability to spot my shots and ice pick in my neck type pain every time I shot.
Phillip Vellayo, Gunwerks instructor, thankfully shared what is illustrated in the video above with me a few months ago. The width of my torso meant shouldering the rifle in the pocket, as most all folks would instruct, put the optic too far away from my centerline. So I had to lay my head over on an angle to try to see through the optic. This set off a snowball effect that exceeds the purpose of this post.
I now have the rifle mounted on the upper portion of my collarbone much more to the centerline of my body. My neck no longer hurts and the reticle barely moves at all during The recoil impulse. The end result is that I can now spot my shots and shoot pain free.
Thank God we have folks like Phillip and Scott willing to share what they have learned with us. What I perceived as a lack of talent and or poor vision, were in reality poorly implemented fundamentals. Just because you read something in a book does not mean that it's right. At least not for every shooter.
I'm still a work in progress but I've never been so comfortable behind my rifle!
Dan
NC
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