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<blockquote data-quote="BallisticsGuy" data-source="post: 2022726" data-attributes="member: 96226"><p>First, movies ain't real life. You're talking about wives tale kind of stuff. Military applications are kinda misrepresented because you never see said sniper having just finished a marathon and needing to get into combat breathing / respiratory control like abdominal breathing but that's just to make shooting into the same time zone possible. I don't think they're going to be expecting to make precision shots under those circumstances. It's heat of hellish battle stuff to begin with. You shoot at your natural respiratory pause and if your heart is thumping so hard it's busting your sight picture, then you need to calm yourself down before taking a miss. Simple as that. You can mitigate the effect of a strong thumping pulse but you can't just skip it. That's for thumping beats but what about the small effects? Those exist and are a real issue, especially as you get to extreme ranges or very small targets.</p><p></p><p>One way of not letting your heartbeat affect things is to simply set up a natural point of aim from a fully supported position and let the rifle free recoil while using a light trigger. Then your heartbeat isn't visible because you're basically not touching the gun. The terrible fact is, you probably won't be able to tell when it is a factor unless it's so severe that you'd just have to sit down and calm out for a minute anyway.</p><p></p><p>Your brain works very hard to edit out things like small apparent position shifts of distant objects or you'd see a bouncing chaotic world all the time. I shoot competitively, like a lot of guys on here, and I NEVER see my heartbeat in the scope at a match but the video sure as hell does... peep delta below. When I get on target is when I'm the most solid (this is a prone stage) and right when I'm on and about to fire you'll see my heartbeat inducing a left right pulsing at about 1 second intervals plus whatever other shake my muscular contractions are inducing. (Skip to 37-ish seconds in to skip me setting up.)</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]zUyxDzdsSL8[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>So as far as shooting between beats, if you can tell when they're occurring, you have troubles to deal with that don't even involve shooting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BallisticsGuy, post: 2022726, member: 96226"] First, movies ain't real life. You're talking about wives tale kind of stuff. Military applications are kinda misrepresented because you never see said sniper having just finished a marathon and needing to get into combat breathing / respiratory control like abdominal breathing but that's just to make shooting into the same time zone possible. I don't think they're going to be expecting to make precision shots under those circumstances. It's heat of hellish battle stuff to begin with. You shoot at your natural respiratory pause and if your heart is thumping so hard it's busting your sight picture, then you need to calm yourself down before taking a miss. Simple as that. You can mitigate the effect of a strong thumping pulse but you can't just skip it. That's for thumping beats but what about the small effects? Those exist and are a real issue, especially as you get to extreme ranges or very small targets. One way of not letting your heartbeat affect things is to simply set up a natural point of aim from a fully supported position and let the rifle free recoil while using a light trigger. Then your heartbeat isn't visible because you're basically not touching the gun. The terrible fact is, you probably won't be able to tell when it is a factor unless it's so severe that you'd just have to sit down and calm out for a minute anyway. Your brain works very hard to edit out things like small apparent position shifts of distant objects or you'd see a bouncing chaotic world all the time. I shoot competitively, like a lot of guys on here, and I NEVER see my heartbeat in the scope at a match but the video sure as hell does... peep delta below. When I get on target is when I'm the most solid (this is a prone stage) and right when I'm on and about to fire you'll see my heartbeat inducing a left right pulsing at about 1 second intervals plus whatever other shake my muscular contractions are inducing. (Skip to 37-ish seconds in to skip me setting up.) [MEDIA=youtube]zUyxDzdsSL8[/MEDIA] So as far as shooting between beats, if you can tell when they're occurring, you have troubles to deal with that don't even involve shooting. [/QUOTE]
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