Training Drills for NRL Hunter and Hunting

[Macintosh]

@Lawnboi Not certain I understand perfectly, are you saying that you would recommend not even going to a match until you can hold 1.5 inch groups from any supported position?
I’m really only doing local matches, but I can tell you I cannot hold 1.5 inch groups from most positions on the clock, and while I certainly wouldn’t say I do well, I certainly have fun.

 

[Lawnboi]

@Lawnboi Not certain I understand perfectly, are you saying that you would recommend not even going to a match until you can hold 1.5 inch groups from any supported position?
I’m really only doing local matches, but I can tell you I cannot hold 1.5 inch groups from most positions on the clock, and while I certainly wouldn’t say I do well, I certainly have fun.

Negative. Go shoot matches, it’s the only environment that applies pressure under someone else rules, besides hunting.

As far as training I see a lot of people wanting to shoot far to train. Reading and spotting is hard and that needs to be practiced but if your shooting 3-4 moa at distance your not really gaining much in the way of learning. It can be almost frustrating.

Once you can shoot 1.5” in different positions everything seems to start to come together, and spotting and adjusting becomes much more intuitive. On top of the fact that you now likely know how to limit wobble and remain steady.

I’m not the best shooter. My first match I think I hit 13 targets out of 100. It was terrible. Once I started doing 100 yard paper drills and finding out that I’m just lucking into hits it really opened my eyes. I got my Kraft drills down to 1.5 inches and suddenly I could count on my shots, put more on target and actually adjust to make more hits.

Maybe I said it the wrong way, didn’t mean to. Just emphasizing how important knowing your cone of fire is before adding more variables.

 

[Megalodon]

Practice just building/breaking positions quickly. Set a target however bear or far you want. Turn your back to it and throw some kind of markers over you shoulder. Those are your spots to transition between. Obviously helps if you have some varied natural terrain to work with.

 

[Macintosh]

Negative. Go shoot matches, it’s the only environment that applies pressure under someone else rules, besides hunting.

As far as training I see a lot of people wanting to shoot far to train. Reading and spotting is hard and that needs to be practiced but if your shooting 3-4 moa at distance your not really gaining much in the way of learning. It can be almost frustrating.

Once you can shoot 1.5” in different positions everything seems to start to come together, and spotting and adjusting becomes much more intuitive. On top of the fact that you now likely know how to limit wobble and remain steady.

I’m not the best shooter. My first match I think I hit 13 targets out of 100. It was terrible. Once I started doing 100 yard paper drills and finding out that I’m just lucking into hits it really opened my eyes. I got my Kraft drills down to 1.5 inches and suddenly I could count on my shots, put more on target and actually adjust to make more hits.

Maybe I said it the wrong way, didn’t mean to. Just emphasizing how important knowing your cone of fire is before adding more variables.

Gotcha! That makes much more sense. For sure, doing kraft drills or something similar at zero-distance allows you to see the positions you are really weak at, and focus on those in practice, and as you are able to close those groups through practice you definitely see your match performance improve. That part I think is really fun.

Edit: also, for hunting, I like the 100 yard hunting rifle drill with the circles outlined in
Post#1 of the “equipment vs practice” thread. It’s basically a diagnostic tool just like a kraft drill, but the different-sized circles give you something of a “standard” for different positions. There’s no reason really not to use 4 kraft targets for this, just using your most common hunting positions under time. It shows what your real best-case ability is at various positions, so you can target weaknesses and address them, as well as track progress.

 

[KChunter71]

Equipment versus practice posts and Rifle practice/shooting

This isn’t in response to anyone I particular, but there is an up tick in the amount of “I want a XXXX distance hunting rifle” traffic the last few months. I am getting a lot of questions relating to this, which I do not mind helping, but thought a public post might help answer some questions...

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Thanks for sharing this thread! No idea how I missed it or over looked it.