Vertical stringing.
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Lots of dry firing can help.
Besides the grip change with the left hand, do you find yourself lifting your head to see where the bullet went?
How about rolling your shoulder forward?
All of these things fall back to the basic of fundamentals.
Stay on the gun with your follow through.
Get in position and dry fire 100 times per day and stay in position for 3-5 seconds after trigger press.
Get used to holding the position, and the left hand will stop releasing pressure on the rear bag.
Talk fundamentals to yourself and go through the mental checklist. Hold yourself accountable to them. The reward for good fundamentals is cycling the bolt.
I have dummy rounds I keep in my safe to dry fire with.
Besides the grip change with the left hand, do you find yourself lifting your head to see where the bullet went?
How about rolling your shoulder forward?
All of these things fall back to the basic of fundamentals.
Stay on the gun with your follow through.
Get in position and dry fire 100 times per day and stay in position for 3-5 seconds after trigger press.
Get used to holding the position, and the left hand will stop releasing pressure on the rear bag.
Talk fundamentals to yourself and go through the mental checklist. Hold yourself accountable to them. The reward for good fundamentals is cycling the bolt.
I have dummy rounds I keep in my safe to dry fire with.
I’m not an expert by any means but both of the recommendations above are spot on.
Additional techniques I found useful include:
1. Practice with rimfire rifle has helped me as any movement in the rear of the rifle is greatly amplified due to longer bullet transit time through the barrel.
2. Dryfire with the magnification dialed all the way up, aim at one of the corners of the 1/4”square and look for reticle twitches after the trigger pull. If there was a jiggle,, that’s usually where the bullet will result in a ”flyer."
YMMV, happy shooting.
Additional techniques I found useful include:
1. Practice with rimfire rifle has helped me as any movement in the rear of the rifle is greatly amplified due to longer bullet transit time through the barrel.
2. Dryfire with the magnification dialed all the way up, aim at one of the corners of the 1/4”square and look for reticle twitches after the trigger pull. If there was a jiggle,, that’s usually where the bullet will result in a ”flyer."
YMMV, happy shooting.
Dry fire with the purpose of calling your shot. Pay attention to where the reticle moved to after the shot broke. You are trying to build good follow through. Hold the trigger to the rear until you have finished observing reticle movement. When you are actually shooting, you hold this position until you observe the impact.
Squeezing the trigger is only half way through the process.
Squeezing the trigger is only half way through the process.
Adjust position of sand sock on stock so you do not have to squeeze so much to reach your target.
A couple of more helpful hints about precision shooting that I remembered...
1. I am a bit dense, so it took me at least 2 readings and 2 coached lessons to understand this, but during the Appleseed Project, the lightbulb finally came on. When they reference Natural Point of Aim (NPOA) think of it as a comfortable position where your elbows, shoulder, neck and cheek are in a resting position with as minimal muscle contracture as possible. Rely on the skeletal and ligamentous support (static support) vs. muscular tension (dynamic support). This was highlighted when an Appleseed instructor had me get on target on the expiratory pause, then I would close my eye and go through a respiratory cycle and open my eye near the same point during expiration. If the point of aim was unchanged, then that would be my natural point of aim. If not at the same location, I would adjust left/right/up/down by moving where my belly button contacted the ground rather than ”muscling” the rifle with my arms, shoulders, grip, etc. After several adjustments, and my verbal confirmation of my NPOA, the instructor would cover the objective of the scope with his hand and have me take a “NPOA blind shot.” If my natural point of aim was spot on, I could hit the 2 inch square in the middle of the silhouette at 25 yards. I hit 1 of 5 shots and my wife hit 4 of 5. I had finally learned in both theory and in practice, what NPOA meant. My wife got it on the 1st lesson, validating what firearms instructors have long known... many women shooters progress with the fundamentals more quickly.
2. While shooting 22 LR, when I could see the bullets drop in, my shots were most accurate. Similarly, when I can spot my own hits/misses on centerfire shots, it meant that I had a solid NPOA.
YMMV, happy shooting.
1. I am a bit dense, so it took me at least 2 readings and 2 coached lessons to understand this, but during the Appleseed Project, the lightbulb finally came on. When they reference Natural Point of Aim (NPOA) think of it as a comfortable position where your elbows, shoulder, neck and cheek are in a resting position with as minimal muscle contracture as possible. Rely on the skeletal and ligamentous support (static support) vs. muscular tension (dynamic support). This was highlighted when an Appleseed instructor had me get on target on the expiratory pause, then I would close my eye and go through a respiratory cycle and open my eye near the same point during expiration. If the point of aim was unchanged, then that would be my natural point of aim. If not at the same location, I would adjust left/right/up/down by moving where my belly button contacted the ground rather than ”muscling” the rifle with my arms, shoulders, grip, etc. After several adjustments, and my verbal confirmation of my NPOA, the instructor would cover the objective of the scope with his hand and have me take a “NPOA blind shot.” If my natural point of aim was spot on, I could hit the 2 inch square in the middle of the silhouette at 25 yards. I hit 1 of 5 shots and my wife hit 4 of 5. I had finally learned in both theory and in practice, what NPOA meant. My wife got it on the 1st lesson, validating what firearms instructors have long known... many women shooters progress with the fundamentals more quickly.
2. While shooting 22 LR, when I could see the bullets drop in, my shots were most accurate. Similarly, when I can spot my own hits/misses on centerfire shots, it meant that I had a solid NPOA.
YMMV, happy shooting.
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