I need help here to sort it out what is going wrong, as something got unwired in my head. it is indeed a perishable skill, no doubt about that.
i was zeroing 2 scopes today, then proceeded to shoot my 6.5CM bergara rifle. it is set on the XLR chassis, bag rider, set on the bipod i am pressing into. i did not shoot it since may be march.
shooting at 100yds my .22lr CZ i get groups like that, and reasonably enough I expect something similar from my 6.5CM PRS style rifle. so, below is the 10 shots from cz457. not a greatest group, but, an ok one for my level - something i am able to reproduce more or less consistently from group to group.
i shoot it in a standard style having left hand on the bag under the stock grabbing part of the stock and controlling/squeezing the bag. shoulder presses into the stock, rifle is on the bipod.
so, under the the same approach on the larger caliber bergara rifle - i get something like that, also consistently. it kinda pisses me off, as i cannot catch what goes wrong. this was the end of the day target, i was tired by that time and was experimenting with different grips - tried to loosen up a bit also and it was the result - similar to how the session began. i wasted total of 80 something match grade 6.5CM rounds there today, so the butt kicking there is not coming up cheap.
after some stress and altering holds, before that target above i started just adjusting bag under rider on stock to an appx good position to minimize the 8 movement, then i would leave it there and move left hand to grab chassis under the scope and relatively strongly vice the whole thing into the shoulder also pressing hard into the cheek rider - a thing i was taught NOT to do, ages ago, as it is NOT how you supposed to shoot to get consistent results, but, doing it i have managed to get a group like this one below, but again with a typical flier to the left a first shot - mostly due to overvicing the thing:
still, 4 last shots went where they were supposed to.
then i tried to do a similar grip, but with less vicing and a hand grabbing top of the scope pressing down and pulling it back- shit went to the left with one flier.
so it was in total 80 or so 6.5CM rounds spent today with a minimal satisfaction.
i feel that every time i do not vice the rifle and get it even a slight bit too loose under some threshold - shots go up/down to the side on the left. why does it go to the left like that?
a trigger there is #1.5 triggertech one, extremely light. i work it with a tip of the finger, as it should be done.
all that is done from a bipod on spikes, it should be relatively solid, but after each shot rifle gets a fair amount of a vertical jolt - as it is a larger caliber thing. i feel that the way how i position a bag under the bag rider on the stock must be wrong, or may be i do not do enough pressure into the cheek rider? but how hard should it be?
it must be a wrong technique somewhere, but i am missing it. why the hell the bergara does this glock thing on me?
i start suspecting now that may be i get some sort of an unconscious muscle spasm in my right hand/shoulder in the anticipation of the recoil, as it is ridiculous. just cannot catch what happens.
like those 2 fliers all the way down in the center target - feck it that 3 went slightly up left - but how the hell 2 others went so far down? so weird.
this larger caliber precision shooting stuff with much more recoil is new to me, obviously. i assume it has to be the better way to handle the recoil, but - what is it?
i was zeroing 2 scopes today, then proceeded to shoot my 6.5CM bergara rifle. it is set on the XLR chassis, bag rider, set on the bipod i am pressing into. i did not shoot it since may be march.
shooting at 100yds my .22lr CZ i get groups like that, and reasonably enough I expect something similar from my 6.5CM PRS style rifle. so, below is the 10 shots from cz457. not a greatest group, but, an ok one for my level - something i am able to reproduce more or less consistently from group to group.
i shoot it in a standard style having left hand on the bag under the stock grabbing part of the stock and controlling/squeezing the bag. shoulder presses into the stock, rifle is on the bipod.
so, under the the same approach on the larger caliber bergara rifle - i get something like that, also consistently. it kinda pisses me off, as i cannot catch what goes wrong. this was the end of the day target, i was tired by that time and was experimenting with different grips - tried to loosen up a bit also and it was the result - similar to how the session began. i wasted total of 80 something match grade 6.5CM rounds there today, so the butt kicking there is not coming up cheap.
after some stress and altering holds, before that target above i started just adjusting bag under rider on stock to an appx good position to minimize the 8 movement, then i would leave it there and move left hand to grab chassis under the scope and relatively strongly vice the whole thing into the shoulder also pressing hard into the cheek rider - a thing i was taught NOT to do, ages ago, as it is NOT how you supposed to shoot to get consistent results, but, doing it i have managed to get a group like this one below, but again with a typical flier to the left a first shot - mostly due to overvicing the thing:
still, 4 last shots went where they were supposed to.
then i tried to do a similar grip, but with less vicing and a hand grabbing top of the scope pressing down and pulling it back- shit went to the left with one flier.
so it was in total 80 or so 6.5CM rounds spent today with a minimal satisfaction.
i feel that every time i do not vice the rifle and get it even a slight bit too loose under some threshold - shots go up/down to the side on the left. why does it go to the left like that?
a trigger there is #1.5 triggertech one, extremely light. i work it with a tip of the finger, as it should be done.
all that is done from a bipod on spikes, it should be relatively solid, but after each shot rifle gets a fair amount of a vertical jolt - as it is a larger caliber thing. i feel that the way how i position a bag under the bag rider on the stock must be wrong, or may be i do not do enough pressure into the cheek rider? but how hard should it be?
it must be a wrong technique somewhere, but i am missing it. why the hell the bergara does this glock thing on me?
i start suspecting now that may be i get some sort of an unconscious muscle spasm in my right hand/shoulder in the anticipation of the recoil, as it is ridiculous. just cannot catch what happens.
like those 2 fliers all the way down in the center target - feck it that 3 went slightly up left - but how the hell 2 others went so far down? so weird.
this larger caliber precision shooting stuff with much more recoil is new to me, obviously. i assume it has to be the better way to handle the recoil, but - what is it?
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