30 BR shooting style

[Jefferson]

just bought and got delivered a 30BR BAt in a Tom Dickson offset stock, nice gun

now I need to know how to shoot it compared to a regular 6ppc,

hard hold, free recoil, or what to the winners of the score national do ?

Jefferson

 

[Dusty Stevens]

I have to hold mine

 

[Jet]

Jefferson

New to 30BR shooting and certainly not a winner but am learning how to shoot my particular HV BAT MB TM stock. It loves free recoil but I don't. Light hold induces flyers. Firm hold with no cheek contact works best for me.

Good shooting.

Rich

 

[steve stanley]

Most are shooting them free recoil.

 

[jackie schmidt]

Mine is a true 13.5 Lb HV. I shoot it free recoil. I do have a nice hard foam recoil pad though, that does help.

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[Jefferson]

I will have to weigh the gun to see how heavy it is, and try it both ways but I thought the 30 br beat you up a bit so needed to ask,

also I thought a medium hold might work, not free recoil but not a death grip either


will wait for better weather

Jefferson

 

[jackie schmidt]

A 13.5 pound HV is no big deal at all. Since Varmint for Dvore is shot with a legal HV Rifle, you loose nothing by getting the weight there.

Just get your Rifle as close to that as possible.

One thing you will find is that unless you have a stock that was build as a HV in the beginning, ie, extra material for weight, it isn't that easy to get a Rifle up to 13.5 pounds. My 30BR started on a 24 ounce Robertson Stock. With a true HV barrel at 22 1/2 inches, Farley Action, March 50x scope, etc, it only weighed 180 ounces. I ended up filling the entire Butt Stock full of Flexane, a two part pourable material that hardens into a hard rubber compound. It not only added weight, it added were I wanted it, in the rear, and also deadened the stock.

 

[mks]

I have found a clear improvement in free recoil versus pinned, and haven't even tried holding. Just too many opportunities for steering the gun differently. Those pretty aluminum butt plates are killers on a 30. I use Sorbothane. Just touch the butt with your shoulder, then pull back 1/8". Also pull your face away from the scope so that it doesn't bite you. This has only happened to me two or three times (I am a slow learner).