This SMALLBORE Business
correctly according to your feelings of what is right or at least consistent with prior shots. If you do not do this and continue on with a position that could be deteriorating, you can bet your last dollar you will lose points fast. The trick is to be aware of your thoughts as the subconscious mind is telling you something.
It is crucial to recognise that the follow-through process and what it contains, is the final indication that the shot just fired was correct in every detail.
It is of paramount importance to study the follow- through sequence - which means that your sighting process is not finished until all movement of the recoil ceases and returns to correct aiming.
lee dot reticule on a .22 bullet hole at 50m and that at no stage during the recoil/follow through process did the aiming leave the ten ring!
Smallbore is heaps of fun is it not? It all boils down to attention to detail and, as your standard develops so do the factors contained within the performance. In smallbore prone, there is no room for error! It is also a very good idea to write all your findings down in a diary and then read it!
The fullbore follow-through!
So what of the problems facing fullbore shooters, not so much the 300m guys but there are very definite problems for the NRA Target Rifle type of shooting. There are two huge reasons for those who shoot fullbore. The first - very few full bore shooters use rifles that actually fit the shooter properly. In fact many of these guys fire quite good performances in spite of rifle fit, not because of it!
If you study the photographs you will see the position of the shot prior recoil and after recoil, where the only difference in the photo is that the firing pin has fallen in the right-hand photo. To a casual observer, this would be the only difference you could see.
Entailed within this sequence, it is obvious that nothing moved during shot execution, particularly the position of the head behind the sight and the pressure on the cheek piece. See how much is contained in this? You must understand that the whole position absorbs the recoil movement. Any variation within will affect the direction and completion of the recoil.
I also did a lot of study with a Lyman Permacentre 20X telescopic sight on top of my smallbore rifle, just so I could see in greater detail of what affected the recoil movement. During this, I learned that I could hold the
The modern fullbore rifle is moving towards complete adjustability, which is great in terms of getting the rifle to fit but, there are so many out there that really ‘battle’ with their rifle. I saw a lot of this during the Commonwealth Games in Australia where I had access to the top guys in the Commonwealth and I was astounded at the recoil inconsistencies in a lot of the shooters. Many of them shot their rifle using brute force. A lot of them did not follow through at all and, in some cases, the rifle butt was on the ground before the bullet reached the target….
The exception was Bruce Scott, who won the individual, (I had a couple of years working with him) Parag Patell, David Calvert and James Corbett. Does this not say anything? Rifle fit in fullbore is even more crucial than it is for smallbore due to the recoil of the rifle. Compared to a rimfire, these things kick like a mule!
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