And I Did It MY Way

[quicksylver]

So ..here's the story.

I am trying to get this scope thing down, been trying now for two seasons.

I got off 25 rnds at lunch time.

Concentrating on all the great bench rest technique's that have been mentioned on this site.

I guess sometimes you can try too hard.

After four oh-hum groups I said "screw it I'll try the last five my way..... "

Still trying to get the 291 too shoot...

 

[JWFilips]

OK Dan,
Which way is your way? It worked!
Jim

 

[Lost Dog]

How high was the magnification set on that scope? Too high hinders rather than helps. After two tours in the "S.E. Asian War Games" using a 6x scope on an old M70 in '06, I learned the hard way. Later, when instructing at Benning, that too many tallanted shooters we trained used too much magnification. Once they cut back their scores improved. Just a thought.

 

[quicksylver]

The same thing I did when I flew...stopped over thinking and let instinct take over....

Sorry JW....probably doesn't help but always works for me

I get the same groups with iron sights...go figure.

Soon as I missed a bird in skeet I would start shooting from the hip...usually do better...22-23, and that's with a 28 gauge...drove the skeet guys nuts....

 

[quicksylver]

How high was the magnification set on that scope? Too high hinders rather than helps. After two tours in the "S.E. Asian War Games" using a 6x scope on an old M70 in '06, I learned the hard way. Later, when instructing at Benning, that too many tallanted shooters we trained used too much magnification. Once they cut back their scores improved. Just a thought.

LD....It's more than a thought ...I shoot better groups with a 10x or 15x...this one is a fixed 25x...Dan

 

[quicksylver]

OK Dan,
Which way is your way? It worked!
Jim

Jim now that I've had some time to reflect on what happened I think the reason the last group was so much better was because I relaxed let the cross is jump around and squeeze the trigger instead of trying to control the trigger pull waiting for the break obviously it works so much easier

 

[Lost Dog]

Gotcha. ok, I didn't know about the scope you have, thus the question. And I think your own unique way works out real good!

 

[Ian]

From a tailgate? Really?

 

[Ben]

Dan,

Some pretty impressive shooting !

Ben

 

[35 shooter]

Very nice results!

 

[quicksylver]

From a tailgate? Really?

Ian...I was hoping no one would catch on , but now that's it out ...it is in fact the "Tail Gate Method" that really enhances cast bullet shooting!

Ben / 35...This is impressive shooting, I'm just tinkering.

 

[Creeker]

Tinkering is what I do.

 

[quicksylver]

Tinkering is what I do.

...and we will probably live longer than the serious ones......no stresssss..

 

[Lost Dog]

Ian...I was hoping no one would catch on , but now that's it out ...it is in fact the "Tail Gate Method" that really enhances cast bullet.]

Well shucks, we shoot off tailgates all the time in Texas. And pickup hoods, or big stumps, across a saddle (with a well trained horse) even really steady and mellow cows....Ok the last one was a lie, but hey, I'd try it!

 

[quicksylver]

LD...all those options sound better than over the railings of a skiff in two foot chop
....

 

[Lost Dog]

I take it that's a small boat?
Naaaaaaaw! Just kiddin' with ya!
Best shooting I ever saw was from the Tonkin gulf by an old battleship at a small battalion of NVA dug in a hillside a ways inland. Those navy boys never missed! Was told they were 16" guns. Impressive is not even close to what our bunch of army heathens thought! Oh, and the hillside was 5 meters shorter when those gunners were through.

 

[quicksylver]

Naval gunnery has never ceised to amaze me.

Regular artillery I understand...

Just being able to figure out where you are in order to hit somethin else.... especially back then.......really !!!!!

 

[RBHarter]

The big guns made some impressive strides .
In WWII a skilled crew could keep the shells of all 3 guns in a typical modern football stadium at 20 miles . On calm seas .
By the retirement of the last guns they were able to consistently drop every shell inside a football field grid at at 70 miles .

Imagine shooting sub.25 MOA at just over 1 degree of longitude on the planet .

16"50 gun is a 16 " groove and a bbl length of 50 calibers ,800 inches . 3" 50 is 3" at 150.

 

[Lost Dog]

Well all big guns aside, I think Dan's got the right idea. Loosen up. Relax. And just squeeze. Funny, that's what I told my neighbor a few weeks ago on my range breaking in a new .30-30. He was trying too hard. He needed to do it Dan's way!

 

[Ian]

Using a giant wind sail on springs with balloons for feet as a shooting platform only adds to the challenge of stacking a group together, particularly with mild cast loads where barrel time is lengthy. Ya done good Dan.