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Shooting lighter weight rifles?
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<blockquote data-quote="hawk45" data-source="post: 1979623" data-attributes="member: 27634"><p>Knowing your rifle and having good technique is everything. If you have those two things, weight shouldn't matter.</p><p></p><p>If you are using a bipod or anything where you put downward force on the front of the stock, you need to make sure your barrel is free-floated WITH that pressure on it. Checking for barrel clearance w/o the pressure on the bipod does not validate. Hang a 5 or 10 lb weight on the end of the barrel when on the bipod to check for contact. Sand down as needed. Thin barrels heat fast and faster in mag calibers so when calibrating, leave LOTS of time between shots (10 - 15 min) for proper barrel cooling. 2-3 shots from a mag on a thin barrel will string fast.</p><p></p><p>As far as technique. The bullet is gone before you have any time to influence it after breaking the shot. So any influence you have on it is before you break the shot. Fear of recoil and sound are the biggest factors to poor shots, followed by a poor trigger or trigger control. Extra ear protection (double/triple up) during practice/zeroing will help to curve the yips. Have someone load your rifle and have you shoot it. Have them sometimes load a round and sometimes not w/o telling you. See if you jerk the trigger. You can do this also by loading dummy rounds (well marked) and loading your magazine with your eyes closed. If you are stone cold when breaking an unknown dummy round, you are good to go. But you will be surprised how much you are moving when you break that trigger and nothing happens. It can be a real eye opener. Leaning to accept the jolt of noise and recoil is a bit win.</p><p></p><p>Not going to get deeper into equipment and optics as that is a rabbit hole. But hopefully all these great replys help.</p><p>Cheers!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hawk45, post: 1979623, member: 27634"] Knowing your rifle and having good technique is everything. If you have those two things, weight shouldn't matter. If you are using a bipod or anything where you put downward force on the front of the stock, you need to make sure your barrel is free-floated WITH that pressure on it. Checking for barrel clearance w/o the pressure on the bipod does not validate. Hang a 5 or 10 lb weight on the end of the barrel when on the bipod to check for contact. Sand down as needed. Thin barrels heat fast and faster in mag calibers so when calibrating, leave LOTS of time between shots (10 - 15 min) for proper barrel cooling. 2-3 shots from a mag on a thin barrel will string fast. As far as technique. The bullet is gone before you have any time to influence it after breaking the shot. So any influence you have on it is before you break the shot. Fear of recoil and sound are the biggest factors to poor shots, followed by a poor trigger or trigger control. Extra ear protection (double/triple up) during practice/zeroing will help to curve the yips. Have someone load your rifle and have you shoot it. Have them sometimes load a round and sometimes not w/o telling you. See if you jerk the trigger. You can do this also by loading dummy rounds (well marked) and loading your magazine with your eyes closed. If you are stone cold when breaking an unknown dummy round, you are good to go. But you will be surprised how much you are moving when you break that trigger and nothing happens. It can be a real eye opener. Leaning to accept the jolt of noise and recoil is a bit win. Not going to get deeper into equipment and optics as that is a rabbit hole. But hopefully all these great replys help. Cheers! [/QUOTE]
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