I had the pleasure of training with Jay from North Texas Rifle Precision on Saturday. This was my 3rd time in the past year to work with him and once again it exceeded all of my expectations. He is a great teacher and a great guy which makes the day very enjoyable. We laughed a lot and trained hard.
The objective of the training session was to get solid dope for The Cup in two weeks and prepare for the positional shots. We were able to get solid, solid dope by noon. I won’t bore everyone with the monotony of that endeavor, but it was an exercise that I really needed in order to complete my preparations. Jay shot right alongside me, at my request, so that we could compare data, analyze the conditions and so he could access my body position as I drove the rifle.
After this was completed, I brought out my 308 running 155 scenars and shot from the 1000 yard tower. This was interesting as we both noticed a big updraft from the wind hitting the berm that the 750 yard tower is on. This caused me to shoot higher than my expected dope. I won’t detract from the thread with my dope (8.4 mils) on the 308, but needless to say it was an interesting time on the tower.
After this we broke for lunch and came back to rid the pond of a few unwanted guests. Let’s just say that his 260 shooting 140 grain AMAX’s made for an interesting show and we couldn’t stop laughing it was so dang funny.
Next on the agenda was sitting and kneeling at 300 yards. The second time that I trained with him, I had not shot positional before. He walked me through getting my TAB sling setup and teaching me the basic positions. I have been dry firing since then working on getting into the position as quickly as possible and making a good shot. This time when I started shooting from the kneeling position he noticed that I was bouncing off the trigger. I worked through that and ended the day 14 out of 18 shots were hits. Kneeling is by far my weakest position, so back to more dry fire practice on it with an emphasis on holding the trigger back through the recoil process.
We moved on to barricaded shots after positional. We replicated the RO 45 degree barricade and shot from it from both the weak and strong side. He taught me a new trick and it worked out very well and was very stable. I completely blew that shot at The Bash so hopefully I will do better this time around. We were looking at his concrete barricade and he was showing me what he was going to do it. I had an idea of standing in the barricade and shooting. There was a lot of tar in the bottom of it so I had to convince him to try it out. We made a makeshift floor out of some boards in the bottom and climbed in. This was an awesome and challenging position. At first we were in there trying to get into position by doing a wall squats, which didn’t work to well. After we figured out a comfortable position we annihilated the 750 yard target, it was a lot of fun.
That pretty much wrapped up the 10 hour day. It was a great day of preparation and training. To anyone that is on the fence, you need to contact Jay and setup some time to go visit his range, it is phenomenal. Jay and Mr. Rice have put a lot of work, time and money into it and it’s a great place to go shoot. I can’t wait until they get the tower put in at a mile, I just have to build a new rig to shoot from it lol.
Seriously, we spend so much in expenses between guns, optics, gear and ammunition and yet we often balk about spending the money to work on the foundation of it all, the shooter.
I can’t thank Jay enough for all that he has taught me and the friendship we have. The countdown has begun for The Cup………
The objective of the training session was to get solid dope for The Cup in two weeks and prepare for the positional shots. We were able to get solid, solid dope by noon. I won’t bore everyone with the monotony of that endeavor, but it was an exercise that I really needed in order to complete my preparations. Jay shot right alongside me, at my request, so that we could compare data, analyze the conditions and so he could access my body position as I drove the rifle.
After this was completed, I brought out my 308 running 155 scenars and shot from the 1000 yard tower. This was interesting as we both noticed a big updraft from the wind hitting the berm that the 750 yard tower is on. This caused me to shoot higher than my expected dope. I won’t detract from the thread with my dope (8.4 mils) on the 308, but needless to say it was an interesting time on the tower.
After this we broke for lunch and came back to rid the pond of a few unwanted guests. Let’s just say that his 260 shooting 140 grain AMAX’s made for an interesting show and we couldn’t stop laughing it was so dang funny.
Next on the agenda was sitting and kneeling at 300 yards. The second time that I trained with him, I had not shot positional before. He walked me through getting my TAB sling setup and teaching me the basic positions. I have been dry firing since then working on getting into the position as quickly as possible and making a good shot. This time when I started shooting from the kneeling position he noticed that I was bouncing off the trigger. I worked through that and ended the day 14 out of 18 shots were hits. Kneeling is by far my weakest position, so back to more dry fire practice on it with an emphasis on holding the trigger back through the recoil process.
We moved on to barricaded shots after positional. We replicated the RO 45 degree barricade and shot from it from both the weak and strong side. He taught me a new trick and it worked out very well and was very stable. I completely blew that shot at The Bash so hopefully I will do better this time around. We were looking at his concrete barricade and he was showing me what he was going to do it. I had an idea of standing in the barricade and shooting. There was a lot of tar in the bottom of it so I had to convince him to try it out. We made a makeshift floor out of some boards in the bottom and climbed in. This was an awesome and challenging position. At first we were in there trying to get into position by doing a wall squats, which didn’t work to well. After we figured out a comfortable position we annihilated the 750 yard target, it was a lot of fun.
That pretty much wrapped up the 10 hour day. It was a great day of preparation and training. To anyone that is on the fence, you need to contact Jay and setup some time to go visit his range, it is phenomenal. Jay and Mr. Rice have put a lot of work, time and money into it and it’s a great place to go shoot. I can’t wait until they get the tower put in at a mile, I just have to build a new rig to shoot from it lol.
Seriously, we spend so much in expenses between guns, optics, gear and ammunition and yet we often balk about spending the money to work on the foundation of it all, the shooter.
I can’t thank Jay enough for all that he has taught me and the friendship we have. The countdown has begun for The Cup………
