Trigger control and all other very specific actions need to be practiced to become the very best rifle marksman.Ĭhambered in. Now, start working on learning very precise breath control and smoothing out the trigger pull to become a near effortless action. All these operations need practice without taking the cheek from the stock, the eye from the sights, and the sights from the target. Smooth and safe operation of the bolt, if it is a bolt action smooth and flawless operation of the semi-auto bolt, or whichever style they own. Work on reaching and activating the safety both on and off without breaking away from the gun. Work on flawless or near flawless loading of the magazine, whatever style the gun has. This is the “walk” part of rifle shooting, so this is operating all of the rifle parts like a champ. Get comfortable on the cheek weld, and learn to make the recoil just a thing of the past.Īfter the shooter becomes familiar with their rifle, then it is time to work on competency.
Start to get the feel of the gun, get to know the weight and balance. Just put the sights in the middle of the target and pull the trigger. Don’t worry about tight groups or “hold over and drop compensations” that the long-range authors write about. The focus of the first timer or very new rifle shooter must be to get to know the gun. Eliminate just shooting until the range master clears the firing line to travel downrange and check on the progress after 20 shots. If a new shooter starts putting rounds through a target at the 25-meter line, he can see how well he is shooting. However, most need to be introduced to rifles and shooting at 25 meters to start with. When reading about rifles, the first and most memorable stories are about an expert shooter making a 1000-meter sniper shot –usually in the rain with no food for six days, and so on. On this subject, we are going to cover the example of crawl-walk-run as it applies to beginner rifle shooters.
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