Shooting without a bipod

Now shooting off a solid object such as a tree or post, I always get my hand to cushion between the object and the stock, never have the stock in direct contact. Correct?

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Originally Posted by gimp

Ah the old fashioned cocked leg prone. I've tried most shooting positions & settled on the straight leg prone for me, I experience no discomfort lying flat and find it better for consistently finding npoa & for recoil control, it's also more practical off a flat range imo & I have no more instability in that position than cocked leg. It's a more relaxed position and muscle tension = bad when shooting. imo. Anyone else have thoughts/experience on leg position when prone?

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Bring the leg up cocked and breath into your stomach instead of chest.
That's why it was done. My Grandad taught me that. He taught a load of WW2 guys before they went off. He was WW1 vet. Nice guy had some pretty mean burn marks on his body from mustard gas though.

You're talking about unsupported prone which is different to supported prone & the cocked leg prone offers less recoil control for followup shots & self spotting. I can find no accuracy advantage to cocked leg over straight leg when shooting supported prone, have those declaring cocked leg prone to be "correct" tested both?

Additionally if one does not have a beer gut, one does not have such a desperate need to cock the leg. Just sayin'

Twitchy bugger alright. 😆


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Originally Posted by 10-Ring

It's interesting to watch the hunting rifle trends over the decades. Due to the power of advertising...

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A little sidenote.
For many, many years we shot thousands of thousands of moose with anemic 6,5x55 loads here.
After 30 years of "velocity" advertising it is hard to believe that these moose was actually killed by these slow bullets.

When I built a 6,5 Grendel bolt rifle (2400-2500 fps bullet) I did a survey with other Grendel users. What did you shoot? How far was it? How far did the game run? The result was basically an echo of theanemic 6,5x55 moose experience...

http://kammeret.no/bilder/albums/use...ockdown~11.jpg

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Originally Posted by R93

I have to admit he lost all credibility with me when he said most blasers had to be bedded to be accurate.

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Bed a Blaser ???
Burn the witch! :D

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Originally Posted by R93

I adopt a machine gunners prone position allowing the recoil to travel a sort of straight line thru my whole body.

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For hunters, a very good position in my opinion. Allows for a larger range of movement when needing to track a target as well.
I simply can't do this with a leg pulled up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAgbyAdouUM

Have a look at Full Bore comp shooters for position. I always went angled to the barrel line and slightly lifted right leg push from the toes slightly.

Shooting with the body angled to the rifle is so that the support arm can reach the forend when shooting unsupported, there's no inherent accuracy advantage to shooting like that when shooting from a supported position

Fcuk I'll go back to the missionary position and shoot between the legs!!:cool:

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Originally Posted by Tussock

I think Gimp made around $80 as a professional Muay Thai fighter

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$180, ish, total

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Originally Posted by gimp

$180, ish, total

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I made a lot more as a professional muay thai gambler