Thread: Tips for improving shooting technique

I’ve been shooting for pest control for a while, informally taught by my old man. I have had reasonable success but am definitely prone to a few flyers.

I’m looking to invest some effort into improving my technique.

Really interested to hear any tips and techniques.

Looking to get a bit more purposeful with trigger technique, as well as understanding ballistics a bit better. The sort of stuff in the second half of this video has been really helpful around how to observe the target, slide into the scope and actually fire: https://youtu.be/ZPAuefpZY6o?si=JFae1WbNib_3Oytp

Yep good vid, my freehand shooting has been buggered by too much benchrest. Use sticks alot these days when hunting but more practise wouldn't go a stay. Agree with the lower magnification thing, 6X is what I use at 200M deer size, too much & I wobble around like a Mad thing, most of my hunting is trying to hit 20c piece size targets, varminting rabbits & hares, to 75M.