Frustrated by my poor shooting!

[Eric Leonard]

While I can't vouch for every one of them, Frankie has top shelf equipment....possibly too many, if that's a thing. Lol!

It can help to focus on one.

"Beware the man with only one rifle. Chances are, he knows what he's doing with it."

Yeah , I can track when I started improving to when I started shooting 1 rifle and not messing with the load between matches. Get it tuned and shoot the same rifle and load the rest of the year and see where you are then.

 

[TIMO]

The paint node is real, I've personally experienced it.

I hope I can endure, the rifle I picked up last fall and it is definitely not my color , wanting to see how I do with it before investing in a new color for it.

Tim

Frankie,
I need to. I am slow getting started this year. Got a different rifle last fall (here on the forum) and not quite have the load just where I would like it. Probably all the more reason to shoot a match and have a good eval of how it performs. It is a 6PPC so I am out of my comfort zone.
Tim

 

[TIMO]

I'm trying! Actually Sandy says I'm very trying! Take that for what it's worth! LOL

Frankie,
Anytime, if there is anything I can do or assist you with. just let me know.

Tim

 

[Shooter13]

Frankie,
Send your stocks to @Bc'z and hit the painting node. Simple fix buddy

I did!! Then sold the gun LOL was a beauty, I still need to sell one or two!

 

[Shooter13]

Well, i can look good shooting badly! Forgot I had it ordered! I'm getting old!

 

[6BRA]

Yeah , I can track when I started improving to when I started shooting 1 rifle and not messing with the load between matches. Get it tuned and shoot the same rifle and load the rest of the year and see where you are then.

Done this 2 years in a row myself. It works.

 

[dellet]

A personal problem is being too negative.
There is value in being critical, but don’t dwell on it. Make a bad shot and most people start to over ANALyze what they did wrong. Pulled instead of pressed the trigger, butt cheeks were too tight, forgot to breathe. Concentrating on the negative.
Then when we do something right, it’s a rush to the next shot. No time spent remembering the right feeling.

That’s backwards. Make a good shot and replay that over and over. How did the finger feel on trigger when it was right?

Bow hunting is the perfect example. You have a perfect heart shot lined up with a tree branch in the line of sight, but not the flight path. The mind flips back and forth between the branch and heart. Your last thought, branch or heart, is where the arrow goes. It’s a minor difference, hit the heart, don’t hit the branch. One is a positive thought, the other negative.

 

[R.Morehouse]

This book has helped me. I go back to it often, with much of it highlighted. It is a quick read and easily put into practice......Best Of Luck....( luck really does have very little to do with it )

Regards
Rick

The problem in between the ears.......We ALL have great equipment. It can be easily fixed with a little adjustment to the ol' Grey Matter.

Regards
Rick

 

[Shooter13]

The paint node is real, I've personally experienced it.

Yes, and you're so loving that you give it to others!!

 

[MGYSGT]

Eye Dr. I still don't shoot like I was only in my 50's, but it did help alot.

 

[K Hope]

Frankie,
I have found having a “TRUE” zero on your rifle makes a really big difference. If you are a click high and a click right from where you should be it might be ok in an orange wind but when and if you have to shoot green, you are already off 1/8 of an inch each way assuming you are shooting 100 yards. Most every gun on the line any given week can win, the winner is normally determined by who can read the wind the best. Thats just my 2 cents worth.

Mr. Cline:

I am pretty much a middle of the pack shooter and like a lot people always looking for ways to improve. When I first started shooting - CF Benchrest (Group) I put less emphasis on my zero and just wanted to have my POI somewhere downwind of my POA. At one point I switched over to Score shooting and for the most part have been working off a no wind zero. Nearly all the ranges I shoot at are quite narrow with trees and or berms all around resulting in conditions that change a lot and for the most part can have seemingly different zero’s. I have tried sighting in for a particular wind or a TRUE Zero and I have been burned more than once with a reversal. Could you describe your procedure of how you sight in your True Zero at a new range and as you said get to - where you should be.

Thank you!

Ken

 

[Steve Donlon]

Like many have said, you have to do everything exactly the same each time. Concentration. You have to get your mind right. Learn to meditate.

 

[ebb]

Cataract surgery, helped me with my handguns, not so much with scoped rifles, an improvement with both.

 

[D Coots]

You're not alone. My shooting has been in the crapper for a year and a half. May have found a couple issues. Wife and I were on vacation this fall and I half way joking said to her:

I'm thinking about quitting shooting.

She says, what would you do you can't spend that much time on the race car?

I replied I'd probably spend more time in the house.

She immediately replies ....MAYBE YOU NEED A NEW GUN.....

She's a keeper.....

 

[steve210]

Shoot a known good gun and have a good shooter shoot your gun. That should help you to figure out where the problem lies. This game is played between the ears. You must be able to trust your gun, if you can't, you are in a heap of trouble. Doubts about your gun or your abilities are a self fulfilling prophesy and a losing game. Just my take,

 

[DirtySteve]

Don't worry or give a bad shot a second thought. Think of it as the exception not the rule. You can not take the shot back so you must just drive on forward. If you don't throw bad shots in practice then it is the pressure of the match that is the issue. The only pressure in a match is the pressure you put on you..

Just fyi, I suck at shooting... lol..

 

[Shooter13]

Okay, here is what we have discovered, I think we found the problem, the BAT action had the pic rail and I know it takes short screws and installed them BUT I must have torqued the rear down first so the front felt solid, come to find out they were not short enough! I've run into the short screw problem but not like this as they were short. Makes you shake your head sometimes. The second gun was a bedding problem, (smith not to be named, not looking to hurt anyones rep, and may not have been his problem?) did the build, he now has it and suppose to ship back to me tomorrow, fingers crossed. The bolt would go in 7/8 of the way but would bind. Loosen the action screw and it worked fine.

 

[Steve Donlon]

Okay, here is what we have discovered, I think we found the problem, the BAT action had the pic rail and I know it takes short screws and installed them BUT I must have torqued the rear down first so the front felt solid, come to find out they were not short enough! I've run into the short screw problem but not like this as they were short. Makes you shake your head sometimes. The second gun was a bedding problem, (smith not to be named, not looking to hurt anyones rep, and may not have been his problem?) did the build, he now has it and suppose to ship back to me tomorrow, fingers crossed. The bolt would go in 7/8 of the way but would bind. Loosen the action screw and it worked fine.

Did you every shoot another rifle to see if it was you or the rifle?

 

[Shooter13]

Did you every shoot another rifle to see if it was you or the rifle?

Yes, that is what led to the discovery of the front screws and the bedding problem.

 

[Brad Johnson]

Buddy, I know of very few in BR that won much in their first year or so and really, by time, you should be there this season. I know you've worked hard and I've seen you shoot well. Now is your time to shine, baby! Worry less and shoot more. The rest will happen. There is no shame in a 2nd or 3rd in the crowd with which you shoot.

Just do me a favor and beat up on that little truck driver i believe they call him Brud