stages of fire forming,grouping)

[tootalloutdoors]

I've been shooting my 22BR or awhile now and I've got brass that is newly trimmed and turned, once fired, twice fired, and so on. I even have a bunch of 6BR brass that I had left over from my 6BR that had about 30 reloads tru them. Now they are all 22BR brass. The gun shoots better than anything I've ever been around. Seriously.. Plenty of .1's, lots of .2's, some 3's. I shoot only in the morning with no wind. I can't even come close with wind. My question is this..........
All these pices of brass are loaded with the same exact load, bullet, seating, ect. Only differece at all is the number of forming shots thru them. They "all" do extremely well on grouping, all of them. The thing is that they all have a diferent point of impact. By alot. Like maybe 2".. Extremely small groups but they are in different places on the paper. This may make since to everyone here but me. I just kind of figured the brass with a few firings would shoot the tightest and the newest ones would be a little sloppier, and so on. Right now I'm doing really well keeping the brass seperated by the number of forming shots. If I mixed them all up I'm thinking I would have a bunch of 2" groups!! Will they all shoot the same after they all get a few forming shots thru them.. Man, I sure hope so... tootalloutdoors

P.S. The bullets are not jamed and there is no false shoulder at all.

 

[StephenPerry]

tootall
You have become one heck of a good shooter if you can chase first shots and get 1's,2's,3's. Are you using wind flags. I use 4 at 100yd. Even though you are shooting when you feel there is little or no wind there is enough to move shots on the target. Like I said in another Post I hate the Calm would rather shoot when flags are moving. If faced with a calm I stop shooting when anything moves out front. Let the Calm come back test the sighter and finish the group. Try shooting free recoil, leave about a 1/2" between gun and shoulder and rest only your thumb on the stock to control your trigger.
Your doing well and not panicking when the first shot goes where it wants. That's what benchrest is, chasing the first shot to make a group and latter getting an agg. Your getting there take your shooting to a Registered Shoot. If you live in California Visalia Sportsman Range is having a 3 day Labor Day weekend Shoot in September.

Stephen Perry
Angeles BR

 

[tootalloutdoors]

I am shooting free-recoil. By griping it I can't come up with the "exact" same grip or hold every time. I'm just pinching the trigger guard or just tickling the trigger itself. The less contact I have with it the less chance of me messin' it up.
I live in N.W. Montana. I need to post a letter on the board at one of the ranges where I shoot and see if I can't generate some kind of casual competition shooting. I'm 47 years old and am working 6 days a week with no time or extra cash to travel. Oh well. This stuff just facinates me. I keep learning things I never even had a clue existed before. A guy on another forum just told me that while I'm shooting and reloading the case capacity inside the case is changing. Things are getting pretty technicle. I don't even have a clue, huh??
Life is good though.. tootaloutdors

 

[StephenPerry]

tootall
My advice forget the trigger finger pinch the trigger guard style. I place my thumb very lightly on the top of the pistol grip area of the stock and allow my index finger to set the trigger off the same every time. Try that.

Stephen Perry
Angeles BR