Excellent Video on Natural Point of Aim

[biodsl]

I experimented with this a bit today. With only 24 feet to work with, I set a 1/2 inch dot at the end of the hallway and dialed the Vortex back to 1x power. From prone, I placed the cross hair on the dot, closed my eyes and performed two respiratory cycles. Of course, the cross hair was way off. I adjusted my body and tried again. After a couple of rounds I found the zone. Then I took my hand off the grip and my great sight alignment shifted. I appears I'm putting way too much pressure on the weapon with my shooting hand. I took LRRPF52's advice and got up, walked around, and re-assumed the position. After a few cycles of this I found it much quicker to re-gain a good position and point of aim. Finally, I began picking up the rifle when I broke from prone. I did the whole cycle to include placing the weapon to ward the target. I definitely learned something today.

I also tried this from kneeling. It's amazing how much steadier I was when I shifted my body and not the rifle to bring the reticule on target.