Thread: Accuracy troubleshooting suggestions?

“I’d reiterate that these light rifles require absolute consistency of hold to shoot well, which tends to compound out on the hill where you're never shooting from a nice flat place. A different shoulder pressure or fore-end hold will move a shot at least 3-4 moa - so quite a bit at 300M +. Practise is your friend, at home dry firing is far, far better than none at all.”

Great points. That’s partly why I wasn’t too hesitant to put a heavier scope on it (upgraded from a VX3 4.5-14 to a VX5 3-15, maybe 6 ounces heavier), as well as the extra DPT baffles and brake, especially since I shoot probably half my animals offhand, say 30-100m.

For what it’s worth, I picked up one of these thingies for dry firing practice, it’s quite fun to use. It slips over the barrel and connects to an app via blue tooth. I records barrel movement before and after trigger squeeze, and gives you a trace and score of 0-100. There are different exercises, timed drills, etc. and you can make notes for each 10 round group. My son and I like to compete, and we’ll mix it up by adding 5 pushups before each shot, etc.

One thing I’ve quickly found was that pulling the rifle in to the shoulder firmly really improves my score, while utilising the sling doesn’t help (or hurt). Can’t say for certain that it translates into real world accuracy but a 50 round session the night before a hunt can’t hurt anything.

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