Thread: Some reasons why it often goes bad.

Originally Posted by 2post

I’m enjoying this thread as there is so much to learn. I’m not so interested in an English lesson though.

I put the paper plate challenge up so I know who to listen to.

Now I think I’ll give it a go next time I’m at the range, it’ll be my Fowler (1st shot) at 200 and I’ll post it here, good or bad. My rifle will never be a bench rest rifle so I’m keen to know more about technique.

Don't listen to people who post groups on the internet. Don't believe anything. Go try understand it from first principles.

It's a teach a man to fish thing. You can learn what the "experts" say and copy them, but when you have a problem the experts will not be there. The experts likely don't do exactly what you do and recycled solutions suck.

I care about the shot I mentioned earlier. I made a similar shot recently, not perfectly but I was set up for 200m (new rifle, quick zero with a box of factory ammo and hunting). 330m which seemed straight up. I let the rifle smack me over to make the shot. 7mm rem mag, 175gr pill, rifle barely on my shoulder and no effort to contain recoil. Blood pouring from my forehead.
Stuck in creek bed on an off camber gravel bar shooting off a full heavy pack.

I did this because I knew if I let the rifle recoil in this way I could factor out my other problems and I did not have time to do things the way I would have liked.

This is not benchrest. This is ugly. Field shooting is ugly.

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