Help....my wife cant see consistently through th scope.

[M77Fan]

Congratulations on a successful hunt. Special shout out to your wife for persisting and doing a fantastic job despite the challenges.

Hope she will have her own custom setup for her next elk hunt.

 

[squeeeeze]

Thanks for the help guys, we shot all 3 elk we could. She shot hers at 450 1 shot....a very happy woman

That's great to hear! Talk about wackin and stackin!

Glad she was able to get hers and get it in the scope.

Now time to get to work and get her fitted proper and a third party to help.

 

[jdyoung]

Thanks for the help guys, we shot all 3 elk we could. She shot hers at 450 1 shot....a very happy woman

That's GREAT!!!!! Congratulations to the lady !!! Thank you for posting as we all learned from this thread. She should sign up here give us lessons.

 

[Rum River]

Glad to hear you all had a good trip, thanks for posting that pic.

 

[Mike Matteson]

Can't ask for much more. Glad to heard of the outcome.

 

[DavidleeCole]

That's awesome. Glad for yal many years of memories.

 

[Sealesniper]

Practice, practice practice = muscle memory and consistency. Also, turn scope power all the way down until target is in reticle, then zoom as needed.

 

[HangNail]

It looks like she doesn't want to touch it, like she doesn't want to get down into the gun. Is she leery of getting punched in the cheek or or the sticky plastic? She definitely needs to get closer to the stock and the scope, but I'm not sure how you convince her of that. The buttpad is in a good spot, she's not doing that wrong she just needs to get a lot closer. She also needs a much higher comb one way or another, her cheek is higher and thinner than yours.

I think you're onto something with having a neutral third party teach her if she wants to learn. One spouse teaching another to shoot is about like getting a canoe or a manual car or a tandem bike, kind of a divorce recipe for lots of otherwise rock solid couples. Can love each other a lot but not have the recipe for teaching something new to someone who's probably a little competitive with you. It took two years of coaxing, extremely zipped lips, and a trip to the deep desert to teach my girl to drive a stick even though she rode a ninja in college. Either way you gotta find a comfort level where she can extend into the gun instead of just holding it like a camera. I'd teach her how to use a sling for support then get some practice without rests or bipods so she can learn to use her body to aim and get joined with the stock, then from there see what shape/fitment issues there are.

I agreed to take dance lessons on time. Closest to divorce we ever came. Psst- she can't dance

 

[Will Gray]

I mentioned before: the gun has to be raised to the cheek by lifting the shoulder. Otherwise the shooter tilts the head over the stock and that just does not work.

 

[DonnaCam]

Congratulations! To you both! Hope your wife gained some confidence and that she can know find a rifle that works for her. I will have to re-sight my rifle because my husband used it for his hunt and now it is way off for me...sigh. Never enough guns...