dellet
Gold $$ Contributor
Good to see a new shooter starting out and more important reaching out. It’s tough to do without help or at least with someone to share time. A couple thoughts.
Post our location and the range you went to. You might get real lucky and find out someone trying to help here, goes to the same range.
It can be really expensive buying stuff to make it easier to shoot, even more so if you buy it 2-3-4 times until you get what you liked/need. The bipod is a good example already. Figure what you need to get started right.
Sounds like the biggest problem is that nothing fits, or is not adjusted properly. You said your were constantly moving around. You should be able to plunk your rifle down on whatever you have to rest it on, sit down, grab ahold of it and with your eyes closed, put your head on the stock, open your eyes and be looking down the sights or scope.
A high bipod means you either need to shoot uphill or raise the butt end. Then you need to raise your seat, or stretch out your turkey neck to see through the scope. If you can’t go to sleep looking through then scope, it ain’t right. Maybe the scope is mounted too high and the cheek riser might help, maybe it’s too low and it’s a ring change you need.
That’s something you can work out at home on the kitchen table and when you do, dry firing until the cross hairs stop moving when you pull the trigger will make a huge difference on the next range trip.
A field bipod on a concrete bench sucks, but it’s better than off hand. Something that helps is remembering to not have two hard points of contact. Bipod feet on the bench is hard contact to hard contact. A folded towel under the feet goes a long way to take out the bounce your likely getting.
There are so many things or ways to shoot, that without an ultimate goal of style or discipline it gets overwhelming. But if you get your shooting setup fitted to you, and basic form down, the bullets really have no choice but to go about where you look. That won’t get you on the trophy stand, but it ought to get you golf balls at 100 yards 75% of the time, with a decent rifle ammo combination.
You will take that basic form into any shooting discipline you try, it’s important to get it right.
Good luck and have fun.
Post our location and the range you went to. You might get real lucky and find out someone trying to help here, goes to the same range.
It can be really expensive buying stuff to make it easier to shoot, even more so if you buy it 2-3-4 times until you get what you liked/need. The bipod is a good example already. Figure what you need to get started right.
Sounds like the biggest problem is that nothing fits, or is not adjusted properly. You said your were constantly moving around. You should be able to plunk your rifle down on whatever you have to rest it on, sit down, grab ahold of it and with your eyes closed, put your head on the stock, open your eyes and be looking down the sights or scope.
A high bipod means you either need to shoot uphill or raise the butt end. Then you need to raise your seat, or stretch out your turkey neck to see through the scope. If you can’t go to sleep looking through then scope, it ain’t right. Maybe the scope is mounted too high and the cheek riser might help, maybe it’s too low and it’s a ring change you need.
That’s something you can work out at home on the kitchen table and when you do, dry firing until the cross hairs stop moving when you pull the trigger will make a huge difference on the next range trip.
A field bipod on a concrete bench sucks, but it’s better than off hand. Something that helps is remembering to not have two hard points of contact. Bipod feet on the bench is hard contact to hard contact. A folded towel under the feet goes a long way to take out the bounce your likely getting.
There are so many things or ways to shoot, that without an ultimate goal of style or discipline it gets overwhelming. But if you get your shooting setup fitted to you, and basic form down, the bullets really have no choice but to go about where you look. That won’t get you on the trophy stand, but it ought to get you golf balls at 100 yards 75% of the time, with a decent rifle ammo combination.
You will take that basic form into any shooting discipline you try, it’s important to get it right.
Good luck and have fun.