When Learning to Shoot Free Recoil...

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michaelnel

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... do not stop the rearward motion of the rifle with the bridge of your nose.

Don't ask me how I know this is a really bad idea. ;-)
 
You can always tell if a man or woman has shot a scoped rifle with a little recoil, by the half moon between their eye's!

Joe Salt
 
shooting free recoil, it was weird at first

The first couple of times I tried it, it was the most unnatural thing Ive ever done. After I shot a real good group or two, it felt like we were friends
 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but free recoil only needs to be "free" for the first quarter of an inch or so. Don't you place the shoulder to catch the rifle after that? By that time the bullet is long gone. I'm thinking of what Virgil King of the fabled "Houston tunnel" said: “Your shoulder should be 3/16″ to 5/16″ from the stock so you can catch the rifle immediately when it recoils back ...”. His reason was to minimize disturbance of the rear bag. But seems like it could also minimize disturbance of the shooter's nose and eye socket.
 
That's about right....Do the math to be sure. A LV rifle shooting a 68gr bullet doesn't move very far before the bullet exits.
 
Around a tenth of an inch, but IMO you need to be more than a quarter inch away........

The late Del Bishop went thru phases where he stuck foam rubber bumpers on the butt and the trigger guard.

And I can speak from experience. some days I feel like I could stand acros't the room with a remote and still I'm steering the gun.
 
believe it or not - Ruger #1, 270, 12x Leupold Off hand, around the 20th shot in a sillywet match. trashed the shooting glasses as well. around 1999
 
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