For the last year or so I've been noticing a trend in my own shooting, insomuch that when I shoot bipod without a bag or rest I notice that my errors are following a strange and predictable pattern. When i shoot straight stock traditional rifle I will shoot extremely tight vertically but my errors will almost always be horizontal. I try to iron it out with plenty of dryfire and rimfire practice, but even with a low recoiling centerfire the errors, when they occur, are the same. I keep trying to diagnose it but the final answer seems to elude me.
The strange thing is that the opposite is the issue with vertical grip. My unsupported off a bag or bipod comes back the opposite, in that my horizontal will be very tight but my errors will end up being vertical. Same kind of dispersion in the same sense, with a straight stock it is a straight line left to right and with a pistol grip it will be a nice line up and down.
Sorry if I can't give you more information and it might be a long shot, but I figure I'd ask if anyone else has had anything similar to learn from. Thanks in advance.
The strange thing is that the opposite is the issue with vertical grip. My unsupported off a bag or bipod comes back the opposite, in that my horizontal will be very tight but my errors will end up being vertical. Same kind of dispersion in the same sense, with a straight stock it is a straight line left to right and with a pistol grip it will be a nice line up and down.
Sorry if I can't give you more information and it might be a long shot, but I figure I'd ask if anyone else has had anything similar to learn from. Thanks in advance.