Originally Posted by Beaver10
Originally Posted by ribka
Originally Posted by ol_mike
Beaver10,
Read this article based on the topic of wind effect on accurate shooting.
Taught me that I had been wasting a lot of time ''fine tuning'' ammo plus quite a bit more.


https://precisionrifleblog.com/2013...house-lessons-in-extreme-rifle-accuracy/


that was interesting


Agreed.

Good read.

🦫


Beaver10;
Top of the morning to you again sir, I hope it's a tad warmer in your part of the world - we're a frosty -11°C this morning and we've got enough snow that the tractor will be fired up later on to plow.

Thanks to ol mike for that article as it is very interesting to me for sure, even though I'll likely never get into bench rest shooting out here.

The techniques from the bench though I believe can and do translate from rimfire to centerfire which is one reason I enjoy fooling with .22's to see how far I can push them and myself.

Here's the last rimfire range day where a few from the safe went out for a test.

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Of that bunch Beaver, only the Tikka and the 10/22 deluxe aren't epoxy bedded.

The 10/22 Deluxe was the only one with a stock/unmodified trigger.

For me to squeeze the most out of any of them, it seems that how I grip the rifle and how it's sitting in the rear bags makes the most difference. On the last photo of the ammo test for instance I was gripping the stock as lightly but still consistently as possible with my shooting hand and squeezing the ears on the rear bag just a wee bit.

Now truly when I shoot my hunting rifles, especially the lighter ones Beaver, if I don't hold the fore end down they'll shoot patterns for me, but the rimfires did and do show me that it's the tiny details in my technique that are making the difference in how I'm shooting.

Again I hope that was useful.

As mentioned we've got snow so the little diesel will be fired up and incantations spoken over the water pump as it's beginning to weep out the front seal so it's days are numbered. What I believe to be a replacement is sitting in a box on the bench so that's cool if it doesn't, but as the movie line went, "it'd be cooler if it didn't"...

Merry Christmas to you and yours.

Dwayne

The most important stuff in life isn't "stuff"