…of the People of the Gun. Click the link. Scroll to the bottom. There I am!
Notice I got the coveted spot next to Joe Huffman of Boomershoot and his lovely daughters (who are also very intelligent and quite competent with firearms and explosives…can we say Joe & Barbara raised themselves a pair of Heinlein heroines, boys & girls? I knew you could.)
Of course that goes both ways: it points out that I’m not so easy on the eyes as they are. Hey, you’re s’posed to be looking at the groups on my 600-yard target, anyway, not my balding pate & ugly mug.
Thanks to Jeff Soyer (Alphecca) for creating & hosting the site, to Linoge (great pic!) for making the T-shirts (go buy one!) and to everyone who wrote Laura Washington in response to her columns. (Oh look, she wrote another one.)
Won’t you join us? Send a pic to [email protected]. Tell Jeff RNS sent ya.
Erf. If you can do that with a gun (and a pistol at that!) at 600 yards, they had bloody well better be looking at the target and not you. Notice how I am just showing my gun and me, and not my paltry showing at a pathetic 25-yard target…
Yeah, but I was shooting from a rest, and a rest specially designed to eliminate vertical stringing at that.
I shot nice tight 100-yard groups with my Kel-Tec SU-16CA off of a rest (not the bipod forend; that’s kind of a joke). Then I picked it up and shot a magazine offhand at 25 yards, getting increasingly frustrated with each shot as I missed the TARGET more than half the time.
Shooting a rifle offhand is hard! Something’s got to be wrong with my rifle technique when I shoot all of my handguns 10000% better than that.
Well, yeah, rest shooting does make life a little easier, I will certainly grant you that. But even my showing with a bipod (Burris bipod attached to a Yankee Hill Machine adapter to the ventral Picatinny rail) had a spread of a good three inches on a good string at 25 yards.
Offhand, I landed about 90% of shots on a human-sized target at 25 yards, but I shot air rifle for a year in college, and even though the mechanics, methods, and calibers are quite different, the same concepts apply.
I wish I could provide hints, but I am definitely a learning-by-doing type, and my teaching methods reflect that. Just have to be mindful of your breathing… that is the biggest thing with rifles.