about myself relative to application of progress, apart from confidence with what I was doing.
Think what happens when you add the recoil factors of a 308 Target Rifle to the equation!
The mind boggles...
A fully set up controlled experiment is a method of thinking in steps, of finding out just what works and what effects it has relative to the overall. Quite often you are chasing your tail, witnessed by the times that I have seen top-level shooters that made some alteration to the settings on their rifles in the never ending chase for accuracy, only to find out some six months later that the settings returned almost exactly to those they started out with! That is frustrating and a waste of both the ammunition and precious time involved in a chase for more accuracy that proved pointless.
This SMALLBORE Business mental strength in terms of desire.
Shoots such as this just do not happen and the sports psychology entailed within, together with his pre match training methods needed to be analysed critically.
Cooper stated that he did feel really well when he awoke on the morning of the match and seemed to be relaxed. This did not gell with me in analysis because I had always thought Malc was a very determined character, always relaxed and this was evident in pre- match conversations. We had a great time that morning because I was shooting on the next target to his left. As a matter of fact, I shot my own PB in 3x40 - actually more interested in his targets coming in on the transporter! (That took some analysis for me as well…) We did speak of some controlled experiments that we had both conducted and my prone competition shooting was really cooking about then.
In all cases for a controlled experiment, it should be written in your shooting diary, with the objectives firmly noted and, the method of how you are going to do this, noted in as much detail as you can muster. The training goals should be written, with the overall timing relative even to a specific event, or match approaching. Even adequate rest is essential, together with your diet, and physical well being. All of these are important.
This is the small group I mentioned in the article. It gives you an idea of what can be achieved from the prone position, and what you should expect from careful training . Groups like this one are not commonplace, but do arrive when the ammunition is matched to the rifle.
I would like to relate to you all now, the content of the experiment I put together just to give you an example and indicate that we are moving backward in time to approximately seven months prior that trip to the European circuit. OK?
So, armed with my diary alongside of me, I set about finding out just what happened with the forward
An example of this once more concerns Mal Cooper, where, after he shot that incredible 397 points standing in Strassbourg, we went back to the Hotel and completely dissected everything we could think of. Why had this incredible shoot suddenly appeared? We investigated everything for the two weeks prior that match, his rest factors, attitude, mental clarity, approach to the match, relaxation, physical and
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geometry of my position. I took careful note of the feelings associated with the position and the rifle enclosed within the geometry of my position and set about finding out what happened when I made some adjustments, both to the position of the elbows and the pressures affected by the changes in the position. The sling pressures and adjustments, forward arm angles of the elbow and pressure of the butt plate in the right shoulder.
I always fired ten-shot groups while assessing the changes and carefully noted the shot hole placement relative to aiming accuracy and very carefully examined the effect of the position changes I made on
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