#1 shooting tip

[jdyoung]

Cardio, cardio, cardio…… you want that heart resting rate to be low and your body to return to a resting heart rate quickly !!

Make sure your cheek piece fits your face and centers your eye to the scope-receiver ….effortless ZERO Terminator !

EVERBODY is different, so during practice, try different trigger pull weights to determine which is best for you.

Develop the timing of breath exhalation , heartbeat, and trigger squeeze to be effortless , consistent.

When you get bored practicing, change it up, do some calisthenics, get your heart rate etc up and then pop into different position(s) .

 

[DWier]

I hear you loud and clear. I'll be 71 come next month and lay things down and forget where I left it 30 seconds later. Drives me crazy!

Glad I'm not the only one

 

[Tommo64]

I hate it when that happens!! I have to leave the bench, and walk 35 yards back to the house! memtb

I have a 1 hour + drive to my range. You can be darn sure I double check everything before I leave!

 

[CMDR Kibo]

Snapping in on a regular basis then BRASSS when behind the rifle.

 

[P7M13]

Leave your ego behind. If there's too much noise in your head, go exercise. Follow through.

 

[montana west]

go get a big boy and enjoy your hunt and thank you for being a hunter.. all you need is the will- a gun that goes bang and think anticipate shooting the big one.

 

[West Calamus]

when you begin your trigger pressure you focus should be solely on cross hairs and not target. Fundamental marksmanship.

 

[kiwi49]

Don't leave your bolt at home.

I did it once

Been there, done that

 

[Ts3]

Find the natural point of aim. My analogy is that the gun should sit on target without any human input. Then wrap yourself around the gun with the body inline with the gun. The cross hairs should not move from the target. Once fired, the cross hairs should don't drop back on target. If it doesn't, then consider grip, position of stock on shoulder, trigger control, and set up.

I have read this many times here about the crosshairs dropping back on target. Maybe my suppressed 5.56 gets close but the 30 Nosler, ultra light 280 and ultra light 308 fly up and off the front rest and never realign. It seems none of my hunting rifles do that. Am I doing something wrong?

 

[RYEWSKY25284]

Out at the ranch on opening day of deer season I was on the hill top looking for deer when I noticed one of the old farts that hunts the ranch walking about 300 yards way from his truck then back. He did this a number of times witch made me concerned, so I abandoned my post to see if I could help. when I got to him I asked if he lost his teeth or something, his replied that his bolt had fallen out of his his gun between the truck and 300 yards over that way. I helped him for at least an hour before we both gave up,he went home to get another and I went back to hunting. What he came back to the ranch with was the bolt to his gun that he left home.

that stuff does happen to us old farts. It's called "CRS"

 

[RYEWSKY25284]

don't practice until you get it right. Practice until you can't get it wrong

 

[Hairtrigger]

Depending on where you live, woodchucks or prairie dogs can be a lot of fun to practice on

 

[P7M13]

Don't leave your bolt at home.

I did it once

Haven't done that one.
Stuff I have forgotten:
Magazine for the rifle.
Boxes of loaded ammo.
The bag of all the ammo.
Targets.
Spotting scope.
And yesterday, going out to test loads, a rod to tap out stuck cases. Done after the 2nd shot.

 

[imyourhuckleberry]

Concentrate 90% of your effort on trigger control and what the trigger is doing as you squeeze and 10% on sight picture.