Thread: Prone bipod shooting

You mention a shorter Barrel in a light stock , I perhaps ran into this shooting my supersonic 300AAC rounds Sunday in the new Ruger ranch and it highlighted some issues I'd become complacent around. What I found was I'd Stabilised the action with some of Nathan's compound the previous Friday and started off shooting it off the bench and caldwell "the rock" rest and cross armed as I normally do with my 7mm remmy and 223 with very little issue. This I thought it was spraying it a bit much for my liking (and the groups wider than hoped) at 100m so applied a hand to the side of the scope on the rest and also tried holding the fore-end witha sling and hey presto she tightened right back up.

Hmmm just shows how you can develop some bad habits when you fall in to some shooting styles and change of a rifle can bring all those to the fore. Went back to shooting the other two using this technique and shot same if not better so there's always an opportunity to improve with these things and I'd obviously got complacent. I'm not kidding I thought for a mo my scope was loose on the 300 its was so all over the place and inconsistent.

In case anyone's interested Nathan has a good article around this (of course!!) Hold that Forend!

cheers