Thread: The dinner plate challenge

Well dannyb,im so please you make me feel smallish at 6'4''at 140kgs.But i can still walk 4ks in 40 minuts.Il do a little speed test on the canel road every few months.Make sure i can still walk even tho i live in 2 storey house.Good climbing practice.lols
Keep up the magum shooting db.

The last time I was at a range and watched a bunch of guys shooting freehand at 100m targets, I would have to say not many can shoot a good group at that range.
Nathan Foster talks about this issue in his books and I totally agree.
You generally need to be shooting a lot of rounds regularly to be able to shoot well, which is definitely the case for myself.
Rabbits and wallaby shooting are fantastic for your shooting skills as there are plenty of targets about and you get to fire plenty of ammo.
You develop good trigger control and the discipline required to shoot well under a hunting situation.

Offhand shooting is a bit of a headgame too. I was at a PRS shoot recently, one stage featured a playe of about 400mm at a range of under 200M. Most guys were getting 2 hits from 5 rounds at most. Up tl the line stepped a very competent pest destruction guy - a well known shooter who regularly wins both 22 and CF matches. Bugger me - he didn't make any more hits than the mob. Then his mate (who also shoots a lot of PD) did the same.

Bad day in the office. I know for a fact both if them can shoot way better than I saw that day.

Was a 223 I used, with scope set at 6X any more magnifcation the target shakes around mad women taking a dump. Key to it is, get on target and pull the trigger the longer you piss around the more you shake.
Quiet offen when bench rest shooting, I move around aroud behind the scope to check out any paralax, close my eyes, the quick refocus then bang seems to work, remember watching a old boy watching his wife shoot 22 target --- that be a bad one & he was right so asked why, he replied your first vision on the sights/ target are your best, the longer you stain, old eyes especially the more off, you get. Interesting

Originally Posted by Trout

Well dannyb,im so please you make me feel smallish at 6'4''at 140kgs.But i can still walk 4ks in 40 minuts.Il do a little speed test on the canel road every few months.Make sure i can still walk even tho i live in 2 storey house.Good climbing practice.lols
Keep up the magum shooting db.

Go you! If you and Danny haven't got covid you should stand by for an All Blacks call up. They are going down like flies.

Shooting roos on the run with the 308 certainly gets them out of the bull tussocks and matagari.Have a couple of 5 shot mags spare.Great practice for lazy deer strolling along into your view.

Haha - the two blokes i was talking about are roo shooters (well wallabies anyway)

Precision shooting and shooting for groups etc is a whole other ball game than proficient and practical shooting.
I'm going to sound like that "my dad is bigger than your dad" kid here but my dad is actually my hero when it comes to being proficient with a rifle. He shoots for a living these days, on the ground and from a chopper. He can shoot a running deer or wallaby through the neck at 70 yds from a chopper waving all over the show and quite often several in quick succession, can swing a rifle up whilst exerting himself and shoot running hares etc with boring efficiency. Yet, if you asked him to sit down and shoot some groups he would just stare at you blankly and possibly even ask "why?"

Originally Posted by Trout

Well dannyb,im so please you make me feel smallish at 6'4''at 140kgs.But i can still walk 4ks in 40 minuts.Il do a little speed test on the canel road every few months.Make sure i can still walk even tho i live in 2 storey house.Good climbing practice.lols
Keep up the magum shooting db.

I can confirm that @dannyb is a giant among men but then again I'm a massive 5'6" and 62kg and still outperform the other builders I work with who are 20+ years younger than me.

Originally Posted by flock

Was a 223 I used, with scope set at 6X any more magnifcation the target shakes around mad women taking a dump. Key to it is, get on target and pull the trigger the longer you piss around the more you shake.
Quiet offen when bench rest shooting, I move around aroud behind the scope to check out any paralax, close my eyes, the quick refocus then bang seems to work, remember watching a old boy watching his wife shoot 22 target --- that be a bad one & he was right so asked why, he replied your first vision on the sights/ target are your best, the longer you stain, old eyes especially the more off, you get. Interesting

when zeroing rifles,i always have a shut eye for 15 seconds,relaxed breathing,on the exhale,open eyes to buitifull clear picture and bang.

Gave it a go this morning once the fog lifted
Clean cold barrel @405 yds didn’t quite get the breeze right though

Then tried the standing unsupported @108 yds and I fully admit really surprised myself so fired a second shot just to see



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Originally Posted by Dreamer

Gave it a go this morning once the fog lifted
Clean cold barrel @405 yds didn’t quite get the breeze right though

Then tried the standing unsupported and I fully admit really surprised myself so fired a second shot just to see





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Standing??

Originally Posted by Tahr

Standing??

I know! I was very surprised how well those 2 went!


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75 yards .270 win standing,called the shot 7 oclock 2" low it was 7 oclock 3" low and missed pig at 10 yards and another at 20!!!!!! they werent very big and fern was taller than them,shooting at glimpse of pig having kicked them out of bed.....my confidence took a hell of a hit so shot plate when got back to wagon

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

75 yards .270 win standing,called the shot 7 oclock 2" low it was 7 oclock 3" low and missed pig at 10 yards and another at 20!!!!!! they werent very big and fern was taller than them,shooting at glimpse of pig having kicked them out of bed.....my confidence took a hell of a hit so shot plate when got back to wagon