Question About Shooting From Bright to Low Light

[Joshua M. Smith]

Hi Folks,

The target below was shot about one hour ago, at 6pm.

Now, at about 25 or 30 yards my range goes into the woods with a particularly thick canopy.

I had bright light shining on me and my rifle but was shooting into twilight. Target was about 80 yards out.

I was shooting prone, off a log. Just verifying zero after moving a pressure point on the barrel. No rear rest.

I measured both the best group, throwing out what I figure were fliers, and the whole group.

I was shooting for a bit of orange I could see. I figure it was the bottom of the target.

Is there a better way to shoot into twilight from a bright spot with open sights? I know I'm better than this as I usually do this maximum at 20 yards further.

Thanks,

Josh

 

[Fixxah]

Get a light for the target.

 

[mac1911]

Light cab be tricky and really play with how you see. This morning I was practiceing sitting position with a daisy 880 pellet gun. No tack driver by any means. I can usually put 10 pellets in the 10 ring of a SR1 target @ 10 meters. Today the sun was just high enough to get over the trees and light up my front sight. Target was still in the shade of the trees. Lets just my groups where not the norm.

 

[mac1911]

Light can be tricky and really play with how you see. This morning I was practiceing sitting position with a daisy 880 pellet gun. No tack driver by any means. I can usually put 10 pellets in the X ring of a SR1 target @ 10 meters. Today the sun was just high enough to get over the trees and light up my front sight. Target was still in the shade of the trees. Lets just my groups where not the norm. The gents at cmp clinic always say lights up sights up.....I need about 1 moa up on my garand on bright sunny days with the sun forward of my position. I don't seem to have the same effect with the AR?

 

[Joshua M. Smith]

Thanks folks.

I tried sunglasses, Berkley fishing sunglasses that block 100% UVA and UVB . I would like a hat, but none of my earmuffs are for use with a hat, and I'm out of my earplugs.

Also tried a different target:

I really should get glasses again, too... From that, I could only see a bit of fuzzy green. Normal sight could have seen the black center and then some.

The load was Sierra instead of Hornady 150grn soft point, over 45 grains of Varget.

Most say that they find the Hornady to be more precise, but it seems my rifle likes Sierra. I'm basing this on several different range sessions.

Still, I really need to get out to the gunshop's range. Just don't like to spend money to burn money, you know?

Regards,

Josh