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Heart beats bouncing scope How to stop?
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<blockquote data-quote="22 308 Target Shooter" data-source="post: 656348" data-attributes="member: 48604"><p>CCH, As a long time competitive smallbore shooter, I can tell you what Kevin Thomas said in an earlier response about timing shots between heartbeats is completely true. Now you can slow your heartbeat somewhat with proper breathing and relaxation techniques, I believe more relaxation than breathing, but somewhat a combination of both to a certain extent. But to truely shoot a good shot I think sometimes when one aspect of a shot is being discussed all the other fundamentals are sometimes forgot. I think many shooters know what problem they're having and complete concentration goes into that issue, and then other fundamentals such as trigger squeeze, and proper position balance, and sight alignment (for open target sights) and such are sort of forgot, and then the shot process and result still suffers. I'm a strong believer that to truely shoot well consistantly, you need to shoot and shoot alot (Practice), and on top of shooting alot what is practiced needs to be proper fundamentals, there is nothing more detrimental than practicing and re-enforcing bad habits through constant bad fundamentals. In shooting and practicing alot, all those fundamentals at some point should become sub-conscious, in other words you no longer have to think about making your finger squeeze the shot off, it just happens when the sight picture is perfect. I've always taught if you have to think about it, and have to have your brain tell your finger to "operate", in the time it took your brain to tell your finger, and your finger to react, it's already too late and the sight picture is probably changed and different. I'm sure I'll have some shooters agree, and some disagree, or at least with differing points of view, my overall point is just not to forget about the rest of the shot process in the process of correcting the heartbeat issue. Best of luck. Just my 0.02 as a rifle competitior. </p><p> </p><p>C.D.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="22 308 Target Shooter, post: 656348, member: 48604"] CCH, As a long time competitive smallbore shooter, I can tell you what Kevin Thomas said in an earlier response about timing shots between heartbeats is completely true. Now you can slow your heartbeat somewhat with proper breathing and relaxation techniques, I believe more relaxation than breathing, but somewhat a combination of both to a certain extent. But to truely shoot a good shot I think sometimes when one aspect of a shot is being discussed all the other fundamentals are sometimes forgot. I think many shooters know what problem they're having and complete concentration goes into that issue, and then other fundamentals such as trigger squeeze, and proper position balance, and sight alignment (for open target sights) and such are sort of forgot, and then the shot process and result still suffers. I'm a strong believer that to truely shoot well consistantly, you need to shoot and shoot alot (Practice), and on top of shooting alot what is practiced needs to be proper fundamentals, there is nothing more detrimental than practicing and re-enforcing bad habits through constant bad fundamentals. In shooting and practicing alot, all those fundamentals at some point should become sub-conscious, in other words you no longer have to think about making your finger squeeze the shot off, it just happens when the sight picture is perfect. I've always taught if you have to think about it, and have to have your brain tell your finger to "operate", in the time it took your brain to tell your finger, and your finger to react, it's already too late and the sight picture is probably changed and different. I'm sure I'll have some shooters agree, and some disagree, or at least with differing points of view, my overall point is just not to forget about the rest of the shot process in the process of correcting the heartbeat issue. Best of luck. Just my 0.02 as a rifle competitior. C.D. [/QUOTE]
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