Friday night's memorial service for my Aunt was interesting, and very small with a brief reception afterwards - and I saw cousins from the side we never see and it gave pause for reflection.
Saturday's weather dawned bright and clear - and the good news is that I remembered to bring along my computer glasses so I could get a good, in-focus fix on the front sight - and it worked!
The bad news is I still suck, but the good news is that sometimes I get lucky, and also if I bear-down I can make a bit of my own luck.
I managed to catch a break offhand with one X, but was unable to repeat it.
My rapids were spread in too-generous a group-size but I managed the magazine change and manipulation better.
In slow-prone I got more X's but also more crap.
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the mechanics of shooting are simple. The mastery of them is hard! What were you shooting, and at what distance?
Man, that's nice shooting, compared to mine.
Haji, we shoot (outdoors, under a cover) at 200-yards (with distance stage/reductions - the X-ring at "600"-yds is 1-3/4" on a MR-52 target) and I have an AR with a White Oak upper (1:7 twist) using 68-grain BH Match ammo. I need to get out and practice more, my downfall has been inadequate trigger-time.
Thanks Ted! ;-)
I dunno, that black stuff in the X is looking pretty dead to me.
Hi B&N! Some of the guys I shoot with(/against) fill that tiny X-hole up! When we try to score them we start by counting the (maybe) one 9 and then all the other 10's. Lucky for me some of them were down at the State Service Rifle Championships down in Coalinga, shooting actual 600+ yards.
200 yards with an AR? That's still good shooting. One of the downsides to the Intardweb is that people's ideas of what good shooting is gets skewed. Somewhere out there is guy who shoots a couple hundred rounds a year who thinks he's a master. Lotta people think they're Carlos Hathcock. The reality is that they're far closer to Barney Fife.
Perfect practice makes perfect.
Hell of a lot better than I usually do these days...
One of the guys I shoot with was told by an NTI champion the key to shooting centered shots was simple: be sure not to disturb the lay of the rifle between the time you close your eyes and when you jerk the hell out of the trigger. :)
Glad to hear you scores are improving. Have you had a chance to shoot any full-distance matches yet?
Haji - I try to maintain my humility. I should tape a little "You Suck" reminder onto my rifle stock!
MikeT - It's really such a perishable skill, especially when you don't practice enough and I seem to place non-practice gaps at critical junctures. ;-)
aughtSix - I try to adjust my group-size by how hard I squeeze my eyes shut! :-) No real full-distance stuff yet, that's all down in Coalinga or up in Sacatomato.
Not bad, DC. Not bad at all.
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