Here's what I came up with fellers!
Cut a crate in two for "stand" corner and used scraps to create a couple half-windows, one to rest my outside arm on. Didn't get to bed before 8:30 a.m., then they called me to come in for another graveyard. There's no telling how 'brilliant" I'll think I am by morning -- 5th graveyard 12-hr shift.

Barry

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(May have to fix the pix at home).

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Originally posted by BNagel:
Here's what I came up with fellers!
Cut a crate in two for "stand" corner and used scraps to create a couple half-windows, one to rest my outside arm on. Didn't get to bed before 8:30 a.m., then they called me to come in for another graveyard. There's no telling how 'brilliant" I'll think I am by morning -- 5th graveyard 12-hr shift.

Barry

How's that?

I still am not sure I understand the post, though.

Great Charles!

See thread on "A question for you .280 nuts" for context.
The guys suggested I needed actual hunting condition (Texas stand/blind hunting in my case) practice at the range. I came up with this gizmo to duplicate window sandbag /' owl-ear rest I used.

The problem I was having was that I was missing BADLY at 12x (Leupold 4-12x scope) with an accurate round centering the bull at 100-yards off bench, fully rested.

You're a big help!

Barry

Glad to help -- some of the image codes were a bit off. Thanks for the explanation.

Interesting and creative!

If more peolpe would take the time like you have to truely address an issue there would be a lot more "good" game shots. I'm curious what you find out.
One thought that I had is to video tape you shooting from your deer stand ( now possibly your pool stand) and compareing it to a video from the bench. It may be easier to watch yourself for differences than to try to make note of them while commiting them. Nate

BigNate

Think I'll have to stick with what the targets show. Will do the parallax check first, then use my gizmo to refine "stand" technique.

Thanx again!
B

Update --

I found that I needed to understand "cheek weld" as a way to keep my head down / follow through on the shot until the rifle was done recoiling. Practice off shooting sticks and "out the window" have improved, to the extent that point-of-aim and point-of-impact are the same as off the bench. (Of course, groups are opened up considerably for both...)

Cheers!

BNagel

BNagel

Try doing all your shooting other than from a solid rest on lower power. If I'm shooting offhand or from a less steady rest or shooting sticks, I never turn a scope up over 6x. If you can't see a deer well enough at 6x it is way too far to shoot. For me, the 12x magnification gives the illusion that I'm more wobbly which will tend to make me jerky with less follow through when shooting game. Back when a lot of the old guys tried to shoot a scoped rifle after shooting irons their whole life, it bothered hell out of them. You'd hear these old timers saying they just can't hold a rifle steady with a scope, causing a lot of them to give up on them. Of course the reality was that they could see their wobbliness at 4x while with open sights they looked rock solid, but it ruined their confidence. Cranking the scope up to 12x on every 100-yard shot will get you in trouble when one runs off quickly as well. I'd try just shooting every shot on 6x for a month or so and see if you don't do better.