Its all in the hands....

[Curtley78]

G'day fellas,

I am not sure if many shooters are aware that hand control, perhaps relaxing your hand too soon whilst squeezing off a shot, pushing the trigger one side or another, thumbing the stock or too much or too little finger control are the causes of most flyers and imperfect scores, pending of course that you are using a reputable ammunition.

This sheet is what we use as a reference in our club, it is widely used amongst the various associations although may be considered as 'esoteric knowledge'. I thought I would share it with you.

I had tried to scan the sheet that we use at our club but I just can't seem to use the new scanner I bought, the only one I could do is a little blurry.

At the 12 O'clock position of the image portrays wrist break up (movement in the wrist whilst squeezing off a shot).

1 O'clock portrays heeling-the anticipation of recoil.

From 2-4 O'clock portrays thumbing-that is excessive pushing or grasping the stock with the thumb.

5 O'clock depicts squeezing the whole hand whilst squeezing the trigger.

6 O'clock. The same as 12 O'clock, relaxing the wrist too soon having squeezed off a shot.

7 O'clock. Jerking.

8 O'clock. Squeezing finger tips whilst applying trigger pull.

From 8 O'clock to 10 O'clock. Depicts too much or too little trigger finger.

11 O'clock depicts pushing/anticipating recoil or no follow through.

Hope this helps.

Regards

Sean

[Manna13]

yeah ive seen that before
i think its on a free target website ill try and find it

[Manna13]

here we go

http://www.reloadbench.com/pdf.html

scroll down

left and right handed shooters

[220]

Yeah I use it myself but I think it has a lot more application in pistol shooting where you are holding the gun one handed and don't have the extra weight or a second hand on the gun to mask your mistakes.

[Curtley78]

Yeah I use it myself but I think it has a lot more application in pistol shooting where you are holding the gun one handed and don't have the extra weight or a second hand on the gun to mask your mistakes.

The prone shooters in our club refer to this as do the older and wiser bench resters.

I discovered another cause of error last week in regard to eye relief, the absorption of light and the importance of maintaining the same angle when looking through the scope for each consecutive shot.