02-05-2017, 10:42 PM
Rick, thanks for that.
When visitors turned up at the range interested in joining we typically invited them to shoot a few rounds through someone's F-Class gun (unless they looked like a fruit cake). They would get down behind an 8kg rifle with a 3" wide forestock and a heavy varmint or Palma 30" barrel which had been shooting for score all afternoon and pull the trigger. Typically they would get a bullseye every time. Not a V-Bull but at least a bullseye. Ironically most would go away and we'd never see them again - probably wondering where the challenge was in all this.
To make sure it weighed heavier at the front some of us would even channel out the stock and fill it with lead shot encased with resin.
Now, try the same thing in with a 4kg gun with a rounded foreguard and a centre-of-gravity designed for carry and it will jump all over the place and jerk around the barrel axis due to the opposing moment of the barrel's rifling not being checked by a wide, flat front and the shooters hold (or a muzzle brake with offset ports).
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If your hands-off doctrine for best ever groups was universal it would be in every military shooting pam across the free world...but it is not. The reason being, assault rifle's are too light. You have to lock them in to get the best results. Horses for courses...what works in Bench Rest does not always translate into AR platform. Heck, even with 8kg guns riding the rests you still need a modicum of control to get the best results.
(apologies for ignoring your 'average' group using this technique. If it helps, I don't post mine. It's the internet and anything can be claimed and posted, and regularly is).
When visitors turned up at the range interested in joining we typically invited them to shoot a few rounds through someone's F-Class gun (unless they looked like a fruit cake). They would get down behind an 8kg rifle with a 3" wide forestock and a heavy varmint or Palma 30" barrel which had been shooting for score all afternoon and pull the trigger. Typically they would get a bullseye every time. Not a V-Bull but at least a bullseye. Ironically most would go away and we'd never see them again - probably wondering where the challenge was in all this.
To make sure it weighed heavier at the front some of us would even channel out the stock and fill it with lead shot encased with resin.
Now, try the same thing in with a 4kg gun with a rounded foreguard and a centre-of-gravity designed for carry and it will jump all over the place and jerk around the barrel axis due to the opposing moment of the barrel's rifling not being checked by a wide, flat front and the shooters hold (or a muzzle brake with offset ports).
If your hands-off doctrine for best ever groups was universal it would be in every military shooting pam across the free world...but it is not. The reason being, assault rifle's are too light. You have to lock them in to get the best results. Horses for courses...what works in Bench Rest does not always translate into AR platform. Heck, even with 8kg guns riding the rests you still need a modicum of control to get the best results.
(apologies for ignoring your 'average' group using this technique. If it helps, I don't post mine. It's the internet and anything can be claimed and posted, and regularly is).