First Shots from Original French 1777

[Pukka Bundook]

Hello Toot, long time no see!

2 things;
Hard to test accuracy of an arm with variables like standing on your back legs.
also;
Which gophers do you shoot? ...The ones standing up, or those flat down hiding in the grass?

All the best from a Very Snowy Alberta! (crops about flat.....lots to do!)

 

[springfield art]

Shoot it off hand man. Benches are for sissy's.

Yeah, but if you're sighting in, you want to see "where it shoots" without the movement and flinching of free-hand holding...just sayin'...

 

[Britsmoothy]

Yeah, but if you're sighting in, you want to see "where it shoots" without the movement and flinching of free-hand holding...just sayin'...

Fix the flinching first!
They were not designed to be shot from a bench. That is why soldiers never carried benches with then to battle.

If one can't control flinch and/or call a bad shot they seriously need to back to basic training.

 

[Pukka Bundook]

Testing ones gun is not the same as testing ones self, Brit.
We need to know how both perform.
What are we to do if we have a perfected load, that is really accurate, and never even know it through faulty handling?

Or beautiful form, yet a lousy load??

 

[Britsmoothy]

Testing ones gun is not the same as testing ones self, Brit.
We need to know how both perform.
What are we to do if we have a perfected load, that is really accurate, and never even know it through faulty handling?

Or beautiful form, yet a lousy load??

If you flinch a bench won't help.
Wrong bench technic or bad positioning will give false results too. It's not a panacea. In fact from where I am, it's a cop out for lazyness, lazy towards training..

Archers don't use a bench but somehow get it together.
This of course is simply my opinion.
It is not necessarily correct or factual.
Each to their own.....

 

[Pukka Bundook]

Can you shoot better groups than Mark and others Brit? .....................If you can't , it must be laziness on your part.
And in my part!

No harm intended, just fun...and each to his own of course.