Spotting your shot, most import factors.

[solarshooter]

There's other basic body mechanics that I've learned in other athletic pursuits that I find applicable to good shooting form. Activating my core, breathing from my belly/diaphragm rather than my throat/upper chest, making sure my legs/feet/butt are active, making sure I keep an active/open chest and not let my posture go limp or collapse on the gun after a few shots. All things you would do if I was going to say throw a 10lb medicine ball at you and have you catch it and throw it back with force.

 

[nm.otter]

For me, I can’t and won’t shoot braked. And I avoid shooting non suppressed. I leave the range if abusive brakes are around.

There's a dude with a braked 300 PRC who frequents our range. Brutal -- even from the other end of the line.

 

[TaperPin]

Are you an Olympic level biathlete or freestyle competitor? Are you a world class bullseye or service rifle competitor? If not- stop giving advice that you don’t understand.

Right. Lol

I don’t mention anything that folks can’t look into further themselves, and they shouldn’t take my word for it, or trust videos from some measly national champion smallbore silhouette shooter. If an idea has real value it isn’t a secret, or limited to only certain shooting disciplines.

You like people to believe only your ideas are valid and it helps some shooters to know other techniques exist. There’s a lot of value in how you teach people, and there’s value in other techniques as well.

You’ll be ok.

 

[Formidilosus]

Right. Lol

I don’t mention anything that folks can’t look into further themselves, and they shouldn’t take my word for it, or trust videos from some measly national champion smallbore silhouette shooter.

I can guarantee you that shooter isn’t telling normal shooters and hunters to time their shots offhand anymore than a patch wearing F15 pilot is trying to tell a normal human how to dog fight in a float plane.

 

[TaperPin]

I can guarantee you that shooter isn’t telling normal shooters and hunters to time their shots offhand anymore than a patch wearing F15 pilot is trying to tell a normal human how to dog fight in a float plane.

Are you drunk? Who said anything about hunters timing shots? You must not understand the concept behind active trigger control. It’s ok, you don’t have fully understand it to flap your gums about it. It’s actually kind of fun listing to you try to criticize it. lol

 

[Formidilosus]

Are you drunk? Who said anything about hunters timing shots? You must not understand the concept behind active trigger control. It’s ok, you don’t have fully understand it to flap your gums about it. It’s actually kind of fun listing to you try to criticize it. lol

What do you believe was shown in the video you posted?

Here- I highlighted the “timing” part. How does one take “the first suitable shot coming onto the target”- without timing? Thats literally what that means. We can Ignore that the pictures you posted of the SCAT showing exactly that for now….






At no point have I said that extremely high level competitors with absolute control of the gun shouldn’t time, or use “active trigger”. I have said that telling hunters and shooters who aren’t world class to do so as some sort “good idea” is terrible advice. And anyone that has watched non high level competitors (that would be almost everyone on this board) try to do so has watched the bottom fall out- because they do not have complete control of themselves.

 

[TaperPin]

What do you believe was shown in the video you posted?

Here- I highlighted the “timing” part. How does one take “the first suitable shot coming onto the target”- without timing? Thats literally what that means. We can Ignore that the pictures you posted of the SCAT showing exactly that for now….


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At no point have I said that extremely high level competitors with absolute control of the gun shouldn’t time, or use “active trigger”. I have said that telling hunters and shooters who aren’t world class to do so as some sort “good idea” is terrible advice. And anyone that has watched non high level competitors (that would be almost everyone on this board) try to do so has watched the bottom fall out- because they do not have complete control of themselves.

Don’t feel bad, it’s not an easy concept for all people. The first “suitable” shot is not just firing away Willy nilly and taking a bad shot. Yes, it does require good judgement.

Maybe a more basic example will help you. If you are landing a plane and the runway is not lined up correctly for a safe landing you don’t force the plane down to land, but go around and take another stab at it. On the other hand if it is lined up correctly you land the plane and not dilly dally around.

You might be more comfortable flying circles wobbling around a dry lake bed, cutting the engine and where ever you land will have to be good enough.

Actual picture of you and I landing our planes.

 

[Formidilosus]

Don’t feel bad, it’s not an easy concept for all people. The first “suitable” shot is not just firing away Willy nilly and taking a bad shot. Yes, it does require good judgement.

Maybe a more basic example will help you. If you are landing a plane and the runway is not lined up correctly for a safe landing you don’t force the plane down to land, but go around and take another stab at it. On the other hand if it is lined up correctly you land the plane and not dilly dally around.

You might be more comfortable flying circles wobbling around a dry lake bed, cutting the engine and where ever you land will have to be good enough.

Actual picture of you and I landing our planes.

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As with all of what you write- including the gem of “learning to call wind for shooting, without shooting at all”; you couldn’t answer direct questions or engage in the actual subject.