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Greg Culpepper
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falconpilot,
The perfect practice for shooting is shooting. And the perfect practice for shooting matches is shooting matches. The distinction I'm trying to make is that in a match, you have all the additional information that is available from your fellow relay member's targets. You can use their targets to better understand what just happened on yours.
I've had the not uncommon experience of comparing my target to that of my adjacent competitor and finding the two to be virtually identical, hole for hole if we shot at the same cadence. If you rewind your memory tape back and replay the relay in your head you can form some opinion about the order of shot placement and what caused the divergence from where you hoped the shots would land. If you are shooting by yourself you don't have the utility of the results on other targets shot during the same time interval.
I don't have a discernible or describable system. It is not an intellectual approach but more intuitive born out of a lot of trigger time in matches. I don't run or pick but rather a combination that feels right to me in the moment.
Machine gunning them down range to beat a condition change usually compromises my gun handling and produces bigger groups than I would forecast from the condition. So I would advise to take your time as fast as you can. When I hold off for a condition the bullet usually goes where I'm holding and I get bit by my own "strategy". Reading flags and mirage on the fly can help tell you when to check up but I give more importance to what's happening to the air at the firing line as I feel it on my arms and face. I believe that the bullet gets pointed on its path right in front of the gun by the apparent air and that this departure vector is the most significant portion of impact variance from point of aim. So waiting five or fifteen seconds for a puff or a lull to pass seems to work for me more often than not.
Finally I would comment that pilots and sailors who have experience with the way moving objects behave in air are uncommonly well equipped to learn bullet behavior.
Greg
Also I want to throw my hat in with the guys who maintain that ranges have their own personalities and experience at a particular range is helpful at that range. In my experience, Pennsylvania and North Carolina present more variable issues than Ohio, Virginia and Iowa.
The perfect practice for shooting is shooting. And the perfect practice for shooting matches is shooting matches. The distinction I'm trying to make is that in a match, you have all the additional information that is available from your fellow relay member's targets. You can use their targets to better understand what just happened on yours.
I've had the not uncommon experience of comparing my target to that of my adjacent competitor and finding the two to be virtually identical, hole for hole if we shot at the same cadence. If you rewind your memory tape back and replay the relay in your head you can form some opinion about the order of shot placement and what caused the divergence from where you hoped the shots would land. If you are shooting by yourself you don't have the utility of the results on other targets shot during the same time interval.
I don't have a discernible or describable system. It is not an intellectual approach but more intuitive born out of a lot of trigger time in matches. I don't run or pick but rather a combination that feels right to me in the moment.
Machine gunning them down range to beat a condition change usually compromises my gun handling and produces bigger groups than I would forecast from the condition. So I would advise to take your time as fast as you can. When I hold off for a condition the bullet usually goes where I'm holding and I get bit by my own "strategy". Reading flags and mirage on the fly can help tell you when to check up but I give more importance to what's happening to the air at the firing line as I feel it on my arms and face. I believe that the bullet gets pointed on its path right in front of the gun by the apparent air and that this departure vector is the most significant portion of impact variance from point of aim. So waiting five or fifteen seconds for a puff or a lull to pass seems to work for me more often than not.
Finally I would comment that pilots and sailors who have experience with the way moving objects behave in air are uncommonly well equipped to learn bullet behavior.
Greg
Also I want to throw my hat in with the guys who maintain that ranges have their own personalities and experience at a particular range is helpful at that range. In my experience, Pennsylvania and North Carolina present more variable issues than Ohio, Virginia and Iowa.
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