IMO very few rifles, all of them special purpose, shoot their best with the least amount of hold that can be managed....yet many shooters continue to chase their accuracy goals using what, for their rifles, are the wrong methods. I see it all the time, fellows trying to shoot rifles that have field stocks as if they were benchrest rifles, from rests that would be insufficient for bench rifles, if they had one. Instead of experimenting with a variety of methods, they "try harder", encouraged by an occasional half decent group.
When I was first getting to know my 6PPC, after I had done the best that I could that day, tuning, shooting and reading wind flags, I would try different ways to shoot the rifle, a lot of different ways. What I learned is that with an accurate rifle, one can shoot it like a 7Mag deer rifle and if it is done by the rules (that one has to discover by trial and error) that very small groups can be produced. This knowledge came in handy on those occasions when conditions during a match would give some advantage to a shooter who could shoot fast, before the time when micro ports and ejectors were common. Being able to grab the rifle and shove it back on target, glance at the flags and squeeze the trigger four times in 20 seconds or less, before the condition changed was, in a few instances very helpful. The point of all of this is to encourage shooters to experiment, and experiment some more, with each rifle that you are trying to get the most from. You may be pleasantly surprised.
