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In my case I shoot BR with a 1 1/2OZ trigger. I have to be real conscious of this when hunting. I've shot high a few times because of my trigger control. Old Crab also pointed out another reason for it.
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One other consideration is a clean or fouled bore. If it was a clean bore the 336 usually shoots high first shot.
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you are jerking the trigger instead of squeezing it.. I taught target shooting in the military and that was the reason for 99% of overshooting..
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you are jerking the trigger instead of squeezing it.. I taught target shooting in the military and that was the reason for 99% of overshooting.. Thats my thoughts. Jerking trigger, closing eyes and buck fever... Just a guess though, as I've seen buddies with buck fever and they do these things...
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I don't know why for sure but most marginal hits I've seen were high not low. I always counsel kids that they are not shooting a BB gun or a .22 rimfire and they should hold where they wish to hit which is the lower 1/3 of the chest cavity. Our rifles are sighted in for 200 yds. and therefore a little high on most shots. I've seen misses that I'm sure were caused by compensating for drop where the bullet was probably a little over POA. One kid using a .270 told me he held steady right on top of the back of a large buck. The deer was about 60 yards away.
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If I had to guess it’s your upper body rocking back a tiny bit more off the stool than it does off the bench
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I have about a dozen predator hunting dvds and 99% of the misses are hitting over [high] the back of the predators .
My guess is buck fever type thing , it's easy to forget all the things you know you should do when it's time to make the shot .
I take a breath concentrate and squeeze the trigger all in a couple of seconds making sure I don't shoot over after watching the videos I have . They're a good reminder for me .
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you are jerking the trigger instead of squeezing it.. I taught target shooting in the military and that was the reason for 99% of overshooting.. Jerking the trigger usually causes shots to go right/low or left/low depending on whether shooting right or left handed.
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Are you shooting downhill? I’d put a target in the same spot, duplicate the shot, see where you are hitting
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I went through a weird phase of shooting high I think it developed from shotgun shooting and the forward push of breaking the action of an OU. In the past I would shoot ten times more shotgun rounds than center fire, sometimes close to 2,000 a year compared to 2-400 center fire. So the habit got ingrained. I also had another weird thing which I call the Scarface technique where you push the rifle forward on each shot like you are trying to intimidate the target.
All these things are akin to a flinch and the same remedies will help alleviate them: dry fire, shoot a rim fire, practice, use hunting positions instead of the bags, shoot and shoot more.
Breath, trigger, follow through. If it were only that easy when you are excited.
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Shooting at an elevated (up hill) target aim lower. Shooting from a elevated position aim higher. I few years ago, I missed a nice bull elk that was well above my shooting position by not taking this advice. Some range finders compensate for the shooting angle and adjust the yardage of target accordingly. In my case my old eyes don't work well with iron sights, peep or otherwise, so it would be doubtful whether I could determine if I was aiming higher, lower on target.
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Why am I shooting high on game?
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My guess is flinching / yanking on the trigger instead of a slow squeeze. My guess is flinching / yanking on the trigger instead of a slow squeeze.
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Shooting at an elevated (up hill) target aim lower. Shooting from a elevated position aim higher. I few years ago, I missed a nice bull elk that was well above my shooting position by not taking this advice. Some range finders compensate for the shooting angle and adjust the yardage of target accordingly. In my case my old eyes don't work well with iron sights, peep or otherwise, so it would be doubtful whether I could determine if I was aiming higher, lower on target. Sorry, incorrect... shooting higher or lower you must hold low.
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Shooting at an elevated (up hill) target aim lower. Shooting from a elevated position aim higher. I few years ago, I missed a nice bull elk that was well above my shooting position by not taking this advice. Some range finders compensate for the shooting angle and adjust the yardage of target accordingly. In my case my old eyes don't work well with iron sights, peep or otherwise, so it would be doubtful whether I could determine if I was aiming higher, lower on target. Sorry, incorrect... shooting higher or lower you must hold low. It isn't a matter of "aim low". It is a matter of the trajectory of the bullet being a product of the distance traveled on the horizontal plane. So a shot up or a shot down is going to travel less on the horizontal plane than it travels in actual distance. Think of a leg of a right triangle as opposed to its hypotenuse. The "drop" of a bullet depends on the horizontal leg of the triangle, not its hypotenuse.
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Buck Fever.....It can happen to anyone!
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It isn't a matter of "aim low". It is a matter of the trajectory of the bullet being a product of the distance traveled on the horizontal plane. So a shot up or a shot down is going to travel less on the horizontal plane than it travels in actual distance. Think of a leg of a right triangle as opposed to its hypotenuse. The "drop" of a bullet depends on the horizontal leg of the triangle, not its hypotenuse.
So how do you compensate for the lesser horizontal distance if not by aiming lower?
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It isn't a matter of "aim low". It is a matter of the trajectory of the bullet being a product of the distance traveled on the horizontal plane. So a shot up or a shot down is going to travel less on the horizontal plane than it travels in actual distance. Think of a leg of a right triangle as opposed to its hypotenuse. The "drop" of a bullet depends on the horizontal leg of the triangle, not its hypotenuse.
So how do you compensate for the lesser horizontal distance if not by aiming lower? If you're sighted in for 100 yards, and the horizontal distance your bullet will travel is 100 yards, will you aim lower?
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