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<blockquote data-quote="johnlittletree" data-source="post: 1502010" data-attributes="member: 105653"><p>Confidence comes from doing things in the best way as close to perfect as you can get with lots of repetition. </p><p></p><p>Aiming</p><p>Breath Control (<a href="https://www.nrafamily.org/articles/2018/2/2/basics-of-shooting-breath-control/" target="_blank">https://www.nrafamily.org/articles/2018/2/2/basics-of-shooting-breath-control/</a>)</p><p>Hold Control (Think about how the rifle wobbles it is not random each person has a kind of pattern)</p><p>Trigger Control</p><p>Follow Throw (especially when leading moving target)</p><p></p><p>In a perfect world we would shoot between breaths and heart beats. This is why a lower pulse is a good thing it means the heart is resting between beats longer which means less wobble. If you can make some light weight shooting sticks. Some bamboo about the size of your index finger and an oval rubber exhaust hanger with two holes opposing each other. I am sure if you have seen shooting sticks before you can figure the rest out. Bone on Bone support is nice and so is knowing how to properly adjust and tension a sling for improved stability. Learn how to shoot off hand standing, prone, squatting, kneeling and while sitting Indian Style! Never rest the rifle barrel or the stock directly on something hard like a tree or a rock. If you need to rest the rifle on something hard as a support you rest your body against it to stabilize your limb not the rifle directly. If you are going to rest on a rock put your day bag on the rock and the rifle on your day bag. </p><p></p><p>Do the square test if you think your scope is not holding zero or the you think the adjustment is off. If you do not have a good way to setup your scope and your eye balling it you have to look quick because your brain will adjust to anything that is off rather quickly the longer you look the less likely your are to see what it wrong alignment wise. Not only that but people have differing abilities to line up two vertical lines with the eye. We test for this in Flight Physicals one line is red and on the wall normally over a door frame and you have to hold a device up to your eye that looks like a paddle with a white vertical line. You line that devices white line up with the red vertical line above the door. You hand it to the Doctor when done. You are not allowed much deviation on that if you want to fly. In normal life no one worries about it and no one tests it either. The point is lining up lines with the human eye is not as easy as you would think and judging plumb is not easy either that is why we have levels and plumb bobs etc....</p><p></p><p>Lastly the human mind does not know real life from visualized events. Learn to properly use detailed and rich visualization make it as real as you can with as many senses and details as you can. Practice in your mind doing all of the above perfectly over and over again and see the outcome you want see the round hitting the Elk right where you were aiming. P.S. My favorite aiming point on Elk is the lungs and I seldom get a runner. They usually just lie down for me after the shot little flinch and they either lie down for me or they start to walk off and crumple over.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="johnlittletree, post: 1502010, member: 105653"] Confidence comes from doing things in the best way as close to perfect as you can get with lots of repetition. Aiming Breath Control ([URL]https://www.nrafamily.org/articles/2018/2/2/basics-of-shooting-breath-control/[/URL]) Hold Control (Think about how the rifle wobbles it is not random each person has a kind of pattern) Trigger Control Follow Throw (especially when leading moving target) In a perfect world we would shoot between breaths and heart beats. This is why a lower pulse is a good thing it means the heart is resting between beats longer which means less wobble. If you can make some light weight shooting sticks. Some bamboo about the size of your index finger and an oval rubber exhaust hanger with two holes opposing each other. I am sure if you have seen shooting sticks before you can figure the rest out. Bone on Bone support is nice and so is knowing how to properly adjust and tension a sling for improved stability. Learn how to shoot off hand standing, prone, squatting, kneeling and while sitting Indian Style! Never rest the rifle barrel or the stock directly on something hard like a tree or a rock. If you need to rest the rifle on something hard as a support you rest your body against it to stabilize your limb not the rifle directly. If you are going to rest on a rock put your day bag on the rock and the rifle on your day bag. Do the square test if you think your scope is not holding zero or the you think the adjustment is off. If you do not have a good way to setup your scope and your eye balling it you have to look quick because your brain will adjust to anything that is off rather quickly the longer you look the less likely your are to see what it wrong alignment wise. Not only that but people have differing abilities to line up two vertical lines with the eye. We test for this in Flight Physicals one line is red and on the wall normally over a door frame and you have to hold a device up to your eye that looks like a paddle with a white vertical line. You line that devices white line up with the red vertical line above the door. You hand it to the Doctor when done. You are not allowed much deviation on that if you want to fly. In normal life no one worries about it and no one tests it either. The point is lining up lines with the human eye is not as easy as you would think and judging plumb is not easy either that is why we have levels and plumb bobs etc.... Lastly the human mind does not know real life from visualized events. Learn to properly use detailed and rich visualization make it as real as you can with as many senses and details as you can. Practice in your mind doing all of the above perfectly over and over again and see the outcome you want see the round hitting the Elk right where you were aiming. P.S. My favorite aiming point on Elk is the lungs and I seldom get a runner. They usually just lie down for me after the shot little flinch and they either lie down for me or they start to walk off and crumple over. [/QUOTE]
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