Scatt training tips

[mgdietrich]

Good, just don’t make a habit out of beating us.....well, you can beat Erud anythime you want. Especially with matching 800’s, he loves that!

 

[mgunderson]

Got a picture of that fancy sling?

 

[mgunderson]

I see the sights differently with the indoor lights. Seeing more white around the front sight. Clamped down the iris on the rear sight and still have more white than I shoot outdoors. Added a few overhead lights and it is still not enough. Is this common?

 

[mgdietrich]

I see the sights differently with the indoor lights. Seeing more white around the front sight. Clamped down the iris on the rear sight and still have more white than I shoot outdoors. Added a few overhead lights and it is still not enough. Is this common?

I run my rear iris 1.0-1.1 outdoors. Currently about 1.3 indoor as my basement is pretty dark.

 

[Erud]

My sight settings are the same indoors and out. On LR target scaled for 1000, front iris is at 2.9, rear is 0.6-0.7. Are you 100% sure that your printed target is scaled correctly? You might try printing another one out just to make sure it’s the same size as the first.

 

[mgunderson]

Front sight is good very close to what I run at 1k. Rear sight is off. Running the rear sight down to 0.5 and still have too much white between the front sight and rear sight. I am normally close to 0.8 or 0.9 on the rear. I am in the basement and dont have much natural light.

Interesting note. My scatt doesnt care what size the black is. I am shooting the 300m target scoring with a 1k palma sized black. The basic scatt offers limited target sizes.... so i had to get creative.

 

[steve123]

Read quite a bit on using the Scatt trainer and looking for a few additional useful tips from other users. What did you do that helped you? Anything to avoid?

Tried as I may, I'm ditching a front aperture for a front post instead.

I compete on a informal level with friends, all of us shooting older Olympic match air rifles, 300's and 600's - FWB, with occasional Steyr and Anschutz PCP's involved too. A 10 is punching out a dot (.) literally the size of <that at 10M, 9 ring a little larger than the size of a pellet, etc. I found that I very rarely shoot out of the black and rarely shoot 10's with front apertures, this is in offhand. There does not seem to be a just right size aperture because of the wobble factor??? I know this strays from the norm. With a post I can align a perfect 6 o'clock in offhand and keep a better group, especially horizontally. With both types I can shoot off a bench and gets 10's every time so for me I can see a "when and a where" sight alignment more ideally with a post.

I also found that resets help scores immensely. If you haven't got the shot off within the slightest sign of any discomfort, the eyes, the lungs, general muscle fatigue, STOP right then, rest your rifle on something, then reset.

Right hand shooter - I don't think offhand shooters place the left foot out far enough to the left, the NPA error is then too far to the right if one doesn't. Doing this has helped me stay more centered. You don't want your body torqued one way or the other.

Sometimes we'll trade off rifles for the fun of it. I find that if I set the cheek piece perfectly for me I shoot better because otherwise my face tends to creep down during the shot sequence. Or in their case they have to push their face down to hard to acquire their perfect sight picture on my rifle.

Using the SCAT at Shot show, the guy running the computer scoring system seemed to be impressed with how well I did and asked me if I had competed before, which I had, so that made me feel good.

 

[Erud]

Front sight is good very close to what I run at 1k. Rear sight is off. Running the rear sight down to 0.5 and still have too much white between the front sight and rear sight. I am normally close to 0.8 or 0.9 on the rear. I am in the basement and dont have much natural light.

Interesting note. My scatt doesnt care what size the black is. I am shooting the 300m target scoring with a 1k palma sized black. The basic scatt offers limited target sizes.... so i had to get creative.

I’m not really familiar with how the SCATT basic works. Looking at the website it looks like it uses a camera like the MX02 instead of Infrared like the USB? With my MX02 the target size is absolutely critical, so much so that it won’t work at all if the wrong size target is used or if the distance is not set correctly. The camera is looking for a specific sized target and it doesn’t seem to be able to see anything else.

 

[mgunderson]

Found the distance thing. I was trying to move back another few feet and it stopped picking up the shots. My thought is the camera in the basic unit is a little less sensitive. The target looks like one square pixel in the preview mode.

I think the lights are messing with my eyes and i have too much light or not enough.

 

[mgdietrich]

If too much white around the front sight, move your rear sight farther away from you. Move it ahead till you are comfortable with the white level and have rear about 1.0 open.

 

[mgunderson]

What is a good lead up for a match? More or less scatt? Take a few days off or hit it really heavy?

 

[mgdietrich]

What is a good lead up for a match? More or less scatt? Take a few days off or hit it really heavy?

I have not been using scatt for stamina, which is probably not wise. Had been staying in position for 20 min when just dry firing. Normally with scatt only about 7-9 min per string? But have usually been shooting multiple stings close to each other with short break.

I can over do things, so I have to be careful about shooting too much or my "fun meter" can get pegged to early in the season.

I would just keep steady on what you have been doing recently.

 

[mgunderson]

Been using the Scatt on the "off" weeks between matches. Makes me feel like I'm not getting rusty. Helps my iron sight confidence and keeps my trigger pull honest.