How to shoot really well!

[Wingwiper]

Turner is right, 3 shot groups leaves little guessing and is a very accurate way of sight adjusting.

I use nail polish on my sights for my 50 yard dope, you can use red for 50 yard, pink for 100 yd, etc etc or have a DOPE BOOK and log in the changes. You need to know your adjustments, no sense in sighting in and getting good dope if you aren't going to remember it or aren't able to adjust to it.

As you learn and get experince, you will realize that a dark target verus a bright target will have different dope adjustments as well as dry days verus humid days, hot versus cold etc etc.

Each time you go to the range and shoot you should enter in your DOPE BOOK, What Range You are on, the yardage you will be shooting, the tempature, the humidity, the light conditons, which way and speed of wind and which way the shadows are bieng cast (take your pencil and place it straight up in the dope book and draw an arrow on the shadow.) shoot your group and PLOT them in the book, write down your adjustments and show your next group and then write down your corrected DOPE. This will become very usefull as you get more and more pages filled.


Good Luck

[jv101]

alright.. guess ill be doing some shooting tomororw!

[big shrek]

This method is mentioned above, but not really gone into...

As an Archer I picked up on what is called the "sighting bounce method" (probably goes under a dozen names). It involves The Up & Down motion that naturally occurs when you take aim at something. Basically you just inhale slowly thru the nose on the way up, and exhale SLOWLY thru the nose on the way down, fire once you reach the top of the ten-ring while on the way down. You are basically giving yourself a certain amount of "Wiggle Room" to make your shot in. It forces you to either shoot dead-on, a shade high if you anticipate too much, or a little low. If you are hitting 10's & 8's through an entire tournament, chances are you'll take home a trophy. Once you get used to it, you'll be in the ten ring on the great majority of your shots. This comes in REALLY handy for IBO style shoots where you are firing at animal targets...on the Deer & Elk, the 10-spot is right above the leg, so at least if you hose up the shot on the exhale, chances are you'll hit the leg and get a couple points anyway

Of course, accurate range assesment is KEY...during hunting or during a tourny you have to know EXACTLY at what range you are shooting at...and you don't always have a laser range-finder (or ain't allowed one) with you. If you are able to accurately predict range on the fly, half the work is done. Practice, Practice, Practice.

I've used this same methodology for rifle shots. Works for me