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Campfire Greenhorn
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Campfire Greenhorn
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Back in the 80s when I shot 22LR competitively I was fortunate to have a good mentor and friend. Offhand is naturally the hardest position to master. This man told me that you will never hold a rifle absolutely dead still. The trick, after developing much muscle control, is to get the rifle moving in circles. The more you practice the tighter this circle becomes to the point where, although it is still moving, it is almost imperceptible. Then you squeeze the trigger. It almost seems magical that the bullet finds the center. I never shot a 100 10X offhand but shot a few 100 8X targets. We had a gentleman on our sister team (our club had 2 teams) with the same initials as me who was a multi national champion who would shoot all 4 positions offhand and would usually beat everyone! Of course he was pretty young at the time.
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Campfire Greenhorn
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Campfire Greenhorn
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Great article. Also I will have to try the circles.
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Campfire Outfitter
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Campfire Outfitter
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Good looking rifle Gnoahhh. Sharpie didn't you go to grade school with H. M. POPE?.mb
" Cheapest velocity in the world comes from a long barrel and I sure do like them. MB "
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Lucian Cary wrote fictionalized accounts of Harry Pope as J. M. Pyne. Guy Lautard compiled many of them into a book. Some of my favorite gun writing stories.
Old guy, old guns.
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