A while back several folks talked about doing a monthly shooting challenge to work on skills. The CBC was super fun and spawned this idea. I said Id post a challenge that people could try if they wanted, got busy…so here I am, (questionably) better late than never. Feel free to try this on your own if interested. Theres no prizes, only highly questionable bragging rights.
We often hear people (me included) say that precision suffers when forced to build a new position between shots, and for fast follow up shots. Ive seen this in my shoooting, but I wanted to try to quantify it. I tried this drill to quantify the difference in my shooting between my slow-fire groups, the same groups if Im forced to build a new position between each shot, and my performance on follow-up shots—sort of a “best case to worst case amount of degradation”. Im not sure what—if anything—this will tell anyone, but I think some variation of this drill could be a helpful self-diagnostic tool to get a sense of your capability in any position and compare those scenarios for that position. I did this prone, but I think it could be interesting to try from any position.
So heres the drill: you’ll need a gun, a timer, the target, a 100-yard range and 20 rounds of ammo.
-shoot at 4 different dots or targets. I used this target which can be downloaded and printed at 100% size to show 1-moa through 3-moa circles: https://www.mytargets.com/Target30.pdf
-the drill starts standing with gun and all gear in hand carried exactly as you hunt.
String one load 5 rounds. This string is not timed. Get into position and fire a 5-round group at the first target. This is your “best case” baseline.
String 2 load one round at a time. Start the timer with 25 seconds on the clock, get into position, and fire one shot at the second target. Stand up, and repeat 4 more times so you have a 5-round group, each shot having built a fresh position.
String 3 load two rounds at a time. Start the timer with 25 seconds on the clock, get into position, and fire one shot at target 3, and your second shot at target 4. Stand up and repeat 4 more times.
Now, there should be a 5-round group on each of the 4 targets: slow fire, single “cold” shots, pair/first shots and pair/follow-up shots. Measure the extreme spread center-to-center of each group. Your score is the sum of the difference in extreme spread between your baseline slow-fire group and each of the other groups. My example below.
Post your gun, cartridge, target photo and group sizes, and any thoughts, snide remarks, etc.
Person with the lowest score after september 2 is 1) able to bask in the glory and 2) is on the hook to post the next monthly challenge.
@Antares @TheM1DoesMyTalking @SteveAndTheCrigBoys @LoH @northernalpine @Decker9 @aschuler @Zork @skipper907 @LIWolverine @Nine Banger @Bluumoon @Moose83 @Jimbee @Graves14 @DuckDogDr you all indicated interest. @wind gypsy you said you'd be busy.
We often hear people (me included) say that precision suffers when forced to build a new position between shots, and for fast follow up shots. Ive seen this in my shoooting, but I wanted to try to quantify it. I tried this drill to quantify the difference in my shooting between my slow-fire groups, the same groups if Im forced to build a new position between each shot, and my performance on follow-up shots—sort of a “best case to worst case amount of degradation”. Im not sure what—if anything—this will tell anyone, but I think some variation of this drill could be a helpful self-diagnostic tool to get a sense of your capability in any position and compare those scenarios for that position. I did this prone, but I think it could be interesting to try from any position.
So heres the drill: you’ll need a gun, a timer, the target, a 100-yard range and 20 rounds of ammo.
-shoot at 4 different dots or targets. I used this target which can be downloaded and printed at 100% size to show 1-moa through 3-moa circles: https://www.mytargets.com/Target30.pdf
-the drill starts standing with gun and all gear in hand carried exactly as you hunt.
String one load 5 rounds. This string is not timed. Get into position and fire a 5-round group at the first target. This is your “best case” baseline.
String 2 load one round at a time. Start the timer with 25 seconds on the clock, get into position, and fire one shot at the second target. Stand up, and repeat 4 more times so you have a 5-round group, each shot having built a fresh position.
String 3 load two rounds at a time. Start the timer with 25 seconds on the clock, get into position, and fire one shot at target 3, and your second shot at target 4. Stand up and repeat 4 more times.
Now, there should be a 5-round group on each of the 4 targets: slow fire, single “cold” shots, pair/first shots and pair/follow-up shots. Measure the extreme spread center-to-center of each group. Your score is the sum of the difference in extreme spread between your baseline slow-fire group and each of the other groups. My example below.
Post your gun, cartridge, target photo and group sizes, and any thoughts, snide remarks, etc.
Person with the lowest score after september 2 is 1) able to bask in the glory and 2) is on the hook to post the next monthly challenge.
@Antares @TheM1DoesMyTalking @SteveAndTheCrigBoys @LoH @northernalpine @Decker9 @aschuler @Zork @skipper907 @LIWolverine @Nine Banger @Bluumoon @Moose83 @Jimbee @Graves14 @DuckDogDr you all indicated interest. @wind gypsy you said you'd be busy.
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